Africa

A mountain gorilla eats leaves in the forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Onen Patrick)

Women offload oysters from a canoe at Tsokomey, Ghana, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Deziranta Namisango, second from left, who has dementia, sits on a motorcycle taxi as Christine Nababi, 80, is helped onto the seat by NGO field officer, Elizabeth Nagawa, as they leave their biweekly fellowship gathering for seniors at a church in Mukono, Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Famara Ndure, a fisherman for more than 40 years, leans against his boat in Gunjur, Gambia, after a day of work, on March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Grace Ekpu)

Omoh Alokwe, co-founder of Street Waste Company, told The Associated Press, the increasing plastic waste is partly due to population pressure in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Vobia Kawaja, a 34-year-old mother of five, sits outside her home with her children and neighbors' children in Kotobi, Mundri West County, South Sudan, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Florence Miettaux)

President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders including Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco EmbalÛ, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gbango Kemu, 36, who got pregnant after failing to get access to contraceptives, sits with her daughter Garmah at their house in Bong County, Liberia, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

CORRECTS CITY - Seer Atukung Tafala walks around his igloo-like shrine in Mbale, Uganda, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only ophthalmologist specializing in treating children, checks Isaka Diallo who has lost vision in his left eye at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Elia Borras)

Roseline Phay, 32, stands with her daughter Pauline outside their home in Bong County, Liberia, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

CORRECTS ACTION TO ATTACKED - A suspected pro government supporter is attacked by protesters during a demonstration over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)