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)