Africa

Vegetables are displayed at a market in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

The sun sets behind a baobab tree, known as the tree of life, in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

A patient eyes are tested for lenses to be made for a new pair of glasses outside the Phelophepa eye clinic carriage, in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Flowers are laid at the statue of Russian mercenaries as a tribute to the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

28-year-old Milla Nemoudji, a woman who was divorced by her husband following years of physical abuse, is photographed in a village of Binmar, Chad, Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert Bociaga)

Drivers of motorcycle taxis, known locally as boda-bodas, ride with passengers on a street of Kampala, Uganda, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Coach Isabelle Sambou, 43 years old, rear, two-time Olympian and nine-time African wrestling champion, explains a move to a young woman during a wrestling training in Mlomp, southern Senegal, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Pascal Kanyemera is shown at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)

Eva Bulimpikya, right, with Godfrey Tumwesigye, left, in action during a gender violence drama skit at Bundibugyo district, Western Uganda, Sunday, June 29, 2024. In the East African nation of Uganda, a 2020 survey by U.N.-backed local authorities found that 95% of women and girls had experienced physical or sexual violence, or both, after turning 15. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Benson Wanjala stands on a field as he talks about the health of the soil at his farm in Machakos, Kenya, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)