Documentary Images from Africa (February/March 2022)

Christian Ndombe, a park ranger, releases turtles on the endangered coastline after incubating the eggs for eight weeks in nests at a hatching centre in Muanda, Democratic Republic of Congo on February 6, 2022. (Photo by Justin Makangara/Reuters)

Twins Adelaide and Adeline Yeboah, 18, get ready to practice at the Freedom Skate park in Accra, Ghana, February 10, 2022. Every Thursday the park is open exclusively to women and girls, who can use the equipment and take lessons for free. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)

Abigail Asante, 20, a math teacher, is helped by Harmonie Bataka, 27, a skateboarder and skateboarding tutor, as she learns a new trick at the Freedom Skatepark in Accra, Ghana, February 10, 2022. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)

Harmonie Bataka, 27, a skateboarder and skateboarding tutor, waits to catch a bus to the Freedom Skatepark, in Tema, Ghana, March 5, 2022. Bataka quit her job last year to pursue the sport full time, to the dismay of friends and family. “They said there were too many boys doing it, boys who were too good for me to win any competitions . but I didn’t care” she said. “I just wanted to be free to do what I love”. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)

Harmonie Bataka, 27, a skateboarder and skateboarding tutor, practises skateboarding on streets in her neighbourhood in Tema, Ghana, February 13, 2022. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)

Women with jerricans queue for water next to their makeshift camp, in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga informal settlements, on March 10, 2022 after their houses were demolished on November 2021 to pave way for construction of the Nairobi Expressway within the Industrial Area. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)

South African student Vutlhari Mtonga, centre left, who was evacuated from Ukraine following Russian invasion, is welcomed by her sister Mikateko Mtonga, on arrival at OR Tambo International Airport, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)

A man receives his medicine from a health worker after a medical check-up in a health center that opened last June in Sakoungou, in Southern Central African Republic, on March 11, 2022. On the edge of the tropical forest of the Central African Republic, the village of Sakoungou has been home for nine months to a clinic set up by Senitizo, a small American NGO specializing in access to care Far from abandoning their ancestral rites, the Akas, a nomadic pygmy people from the forests of the south-west of the Central African Republic and the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, come here for free treatment, affected by viruses or bacteria coming from a more modern world that their elders did not know until recently. (Photo by Barbara Debout/AFP Photo)

Cows search for food on plastic waste in Kampala, Uganda on March 10, 2022. At least 600 tons of plastic consumed every day in Uganda, and a significant part of it is thrown into the environment dangering lakes and rivers. (Photo by Omer Faruk Ozbil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Residents in the district of Meconta navigates a fallen tree after the Cyclone Gombe that has caused 11 deaths in Mozambique indicates a provisional balance sheet released by the Mozambican authorities, in Meconta, Mozambique, 12 March 2022. The storm Gombe reached the Mozambican coast in the early hours of 11 March in the category of intense cyclone with torrential rain and wind of 165 kilometers per hour, with gusts exceeding 200 kilometers per hour. (Photo by Andre Catueira/EPA/EFE)

Ethiopian Orthodox deacons stand during the burial ceremony of the late Abune Merkorios, fourth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox church, at the Trinity Cathedral of the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 13, 2022. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)

A young boy carries a bottle of drinking water back home in the village of Madina Torobe, Matam Region on March 11, 2022. Access to drinking water in the North West areas of Senegal is a constant issue. Through the months of November to August no rain will fall, rivers and natural lakes dry up. Not all areas have drinking wells and flowing taps and if there are, the water is dirty or specifically for animals. Fulani Pastoralists and families living in these remote villages sometimes need to resort to digging large holes in dried out river beds in search of cleaner drinking water from them and their animals. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)

Tunisians wearing traditional costumes celebrate the “National day of the traditional dress and crafts” in Tunisia, Tunis on March 14, 2022. During the event, which is organized by Tunisia’s Heritage Association, Tunisians commemorate their history, their heritage, and handicraft. This year participants began the march from Madrasa Slimania, the historical Islamic madrasa from the Ottoman era in the old city of Tunis, heading towards the Statue of Ibn Khaldun in Place de L’Independance. (Photo by Hasan Mrad/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Tunisian men lead camels on March 23, 2022 at the port of La Goulette in Tunis as Tunisia welcomes the first cruise from Europe, with more than 800 tourists on board, after a stop recorded since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Tunisia expects to welcome a total of 44 cruises during the year 2022, recalling that in 2010, Tunisia welcomed 1 million tourists coming in cruises. (Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP Photo)

Pedestirans walk under the newly constructed Nairobi expressway along the Mombasa road in Nairobi on March 23, 2022. The construction of the 27.1km Nairobi Expressway continues and is scheduled to be completed in June 2022. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)

A crowd of the Nigeria’s ruling political party supporters, the All Progressive Congress, gather outside the party’s National Convention, in Abuja, Nigeria, March 26, 2022. Nigeria’s ruling party has appointed a new chairman at a national convention meant to end infighting as it prepares to select a candidate to replace President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2023 election. Buhari, who was first elected in 2015, spent weeks negotiating with the party’s state governors and delegates to push a consensus position before the convention on Saturday. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP Photo)

A boy is seen at the Niger River as daily life continues in Niamey, Niger on March 28, 2022. The Niger River, the largest river in West Africa, is very important for the country. Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is struggling with famine and poverty. In Niger, which has been under colonial rule for years and has a population of 24 million, millions of people live under difficult conditions due to problems such as electricity and transportation, especially food and clean water. (Photo by Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A woman sells fruits at the Virunga market in Goma, eastern Congo, Tuesday March 29, 2022. Congo has joined the East African Community, widening the trade bloc’s footprint with the admission of its seventh member. The bloc also includes Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. With Congo’s admission, it now commands a market of about 300 million people. Its overall goal is to create a political federation. (Photo by Jérome Delay/AP Photo)

A repatriated child from Saudi Arabia waits to get registered after disembarking from a Saudi Airlines plane at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 1, 2022. (Photo by Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)

Military Personnel sing and dance during celebrations for Independence Day in Dakar on April 4, 2022. Senegal Celebrates its sixty second Independence Day after gaining independence from France in 1960. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)