Africa

Medical lab assistant Mellon Kyomugisha, who said she was the first to examine the first confirmed Ebola victim when he came to St. Florence Clinic with malaria, takes a blood sample from a toddler at the clinic in Madudu, near Mubende, in Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 20, 2022. The region has long known droughts, but Somalis say the current drought is worse than any they can remember. Four straight rainy seasons have failed, starting two years ago. The fifth and six seasons are likely to fail also. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay) This drought has astonished resilient herders and farmers by lasting four failed rainy seasons, starting two years ago. The fifth season is underway and likely will fail too, along with the sixth early next year.

A malnourished two year-old sits by his mother, left, who was recently displaced by drought, at a malnutrition stabilization center run by Action against Hunger, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, June 5, 2022. Deaths have begun in the region's most parched drought in decades and previously unreported data show nearly 450 deaths this year at malnutrition treatment centers in Somalia alone. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Roseline Ujah, 49, sits on her bed in Umuida, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2022. Doctors at a local hospital suspect her husband Godwin died of COVID-19, but there were no tests available locally to confirm their diagnosis. Many widows in Africa say the pandemic has taken more than their husbands: In their widowhood, it’s cost them their extended families, their homes and their futures. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

People come to the aid of victims after a stampede outside a stadium hosting an African Cup of Nations soccer game in Yaounde, Cameroon, Jan. 24, 2022. Eight people died as crowds struggled to get access to Olembe Stadium to watch the host country play Comoros in a knockout game of Africa’s top soccer tournament. (AP Photo / Thierry Noukeu)

Virginia Mavhunga, a 13-year-old teenage mother, holds her child in her rural home in Murehwa, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, Nov. 12, 2021. Virginia, part of a steep increase in pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries during the pandemic, dropped out of school after becoming pregnant in a community yet to adjust to the sight of a pregnant girl in school uniform. (AP Photo / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Muhammad Mubarak Bala, an atheist who has been detained since April 2020, is shown in a photo held by his wife, Amina Ahmed, at her home in Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 21, 2021. Bala is an outspoken atheist in a deeply religious country; his alleged crime: Posting blasphemous statements online. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)

Mariama Sawadogo poses outside Zama Radio where she works as a radio host in Kaya, Burkina Faso, Oct. 25, 2021. Sawadogo’s voice has become a familiar sound for nearly a million people in Kaya and beyond. In the West African country of Burkina Faso, many feel the government has let them down during the pandemic. In a region where women are responsible for family work and community relationships, they’ve stepped up to fill gaps in COVID awareness and basic resources. (AP Photo / Sophie Garcia)

Desta Haileselassie sits at his desk in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 18, 2021. Cut off from Tigray due to a communications blackout, Desta has compiled a list of more than 3,000 Tigrayan victims of the war, including 19 members of his own family. He is one of many in the Tigrayan diaspora who have waited for months to know whether loved ones are alive. (AP Photo / Nat Castaneda)

A soldier of the Polisario Front fires a rocket toward Morocco, near Mehaires, Western Sahara, Oct. 14, 2021. After 30 years of cease-fire, the Polisario Front has taken up arms again in its quest for an independent Western Sahara. The flare-up in the conflict is fueled by frustration among new generations of Sahrawi refugees who believe that the wait for a referendum on self-determination, as promised by the United Nations, has only played on Morocco's benefit while their lives languished in unforgiving desert camps. (AP Photo / Bernat Armangue)

Rose Jatta pulls her boat into estuary waters as she looks for fish traps she set earlier in the mangrove of the Gambia River in Serrekunda, Gambia, Sept. 25, 2021. As health officials in Gambia and across Africa urge women to be vaccinated, they've confronted hesitancy among those of childbearing age. Jatta fears the vaccine against COVID-19 could make her ill, leaving her two children without food on the dinner table. (AP Photo / Leo Correa)

In this photo provided anonymously, Genet Mehari, 5, is treated for malnutrition with medications limited, at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Sept. 28, 2021, in a photo provided anonymously. In the regional capital Mekele, a year of war and months of government-enforced deprivation have left the city of a half-million people with a rapidly shrinking stock of food, fuel, medicine and cash. (AP Photo)