Africa

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)

Tiang, a type of the antelope, hide under a tree in South Sudan's national parks and the surrounding areas, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The country's first comprehensive aerial wildlife survey, released Tuesday, June 25, found about 6 million antelope. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Students of Excellent Moral School attempt to answer a mathematics question on a blackboard inside a dimly lit classroom in Ibadan, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Carole, a 32-year-old former combatant, sits in her home in Bouar, Central African Republic, March 7, 2024. Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic since a disarmament program launched nearly a decade ago. Yet former rebels, communities and conflict experts say it‘s hard to halt fighting in a country still in conflict and where little other paid work exists. AP PHOTO / SAM MEDNICK

Children practise fencing game, on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 4, 2024. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2024 the 30th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbours, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. AP PHOTO / BRIAN INGANGA

A mural is seen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on March 1, 2023. Burkina Faso's government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses by its security forces after a video surfaced that appeared to show the extrajudicial killing of seven children in the country’s north. AP PHOTO

A women prays for the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School students in Kuriga, Kaduna state Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024. AP PHOTO / SUNDAY ALAMBA