A first-grader's drawing in the courtyard of Lyceum No 153 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a school damaged this summer after a Russian missile hit a children's hospital across the street. Joanna Kakissis/NPR hide caption
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Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in DRC, Kinshasa, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt in May 2024. Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/AP hide caption
The United Nations flag waves during preparations for the UNGA 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Miguel J. Rodríguez Carrillo/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Uganda's Rebecca Cheptegei (third from left), died after being set on fire in her home. The man who allegedly attacked her has also died, in a case that has renewed calls for more awareness and protections for women against domestic violence in Kenya. FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
Kenya Red Cross personnel and relatives try to comfort a woman reacting near a burned-out dormitory following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya, on Friday. /AP hide caption
Rebecca Cheptegei is seen competing at the Discovery 10km road race in Kapchorwa, Uganda, on Jan. 20, 2023. /AP hide caption
This image made from video shows state security forces outside Makala prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following an attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison on Sept. 2, 2024. //AP hide caption
Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi holds the 2,492-carat diamond that was unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Gaborone. AP/AP hide caption
Hawa Miso, 70, collects leaves to use as vegetables on the hillside near the Rabang camp for internally displaced persons in Rabang, in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. Approximately 10 million Sudanese have been displaced by the civil war that broke out in 2023. A team of experts backed by the United Nations believes the country is experiencing famine. But the government does not agree. Guy Peterson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An ambulance is seen on the beach following an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP hide caption
Labour unionists march in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria on Friday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation's new president. Marcus Ayo/AP hide caption
A woman protest against hardship on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse some of the protesters in the capital, Abuja. Sunday Alamba/AP hide caption
'Enough is enough' : Nigerians take to street in protest over a cost-of-living crisis
A teargas canister detonates as protesters run for safety during anti-government protests in Nairobi on July 16. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Gambian activist Jaha Dukureh celebrates after the country's parliament rejected the bill to end a ban on female genital mutilation. Malick Njie/Reuters hide caption
A victory for opponents of female genital mutilation in The Gambia
Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting. Gideon Maundu/AP hide caption
Sunesh "Sushi" Pursad, Spinner, performing a stunt on the spinning field at Wheelz N Smoke arena, July 7, in Johannesburg. Kyle Thomson for NPR hide caption
On July 6, volunteers dispense medication at a makeshift emergency clinic, set up in a former school in eastern Sudan, for people displaced by conflict. AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
Elections are happening all over the world. Aurelien Morissard/ Pool via AP; Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images; Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption
Godfrey Otunge, commander of the Kenyan police in Haiti, attends a ceremony during a visit by Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, to the base of the newly arrived Kenyan police force at their base in the Clercine neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on June 26. Kenyan police arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti on June 25 on a long-awaited mission to help wrest the Caribbean nation from powerful gangs. Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kenyan President William Ruto gives an address at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. He said he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. Patrick Ngugi/AP hide caption
Kenya's president has withdrawn the controversial tax bill after deadly protests
Protesters scatter as Kenyan police spray water canon at them during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. Brian Inganga/AP hide caption