Thousands of opposition activists demonstrated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday. The activists have vowed to press ahead with demonstrations calling for government reforms and the release of political prisoners. (AFP/Getty Images)
Blindfolded men awaited screening during a police roundup in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday. (Tobin Jones/AU-UN IST/Handout via Reuters)
M23 rebels stand in a queue during training at Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/James Akena
Riot police stood by the gates of parliament in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday during a demonstration against members of parliament who demanded higher wages. Demonstrators released two dozen piglets and poured blood on the pavement to protest the demands for a wage hike. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
A police vehicle sprayed water onto a burning truck carrying temporary plastic toilets on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday. (Schalk van Zuydam/AP)
Qunu, South Africa: A man walks in front of a window bearing the image of Nelson Mandela. Carl De Souza/AFP
A French soldier kept a lookout next to children in a street of Gao, Mali, Friday. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: an orphaned bonobo drinks after being rescued. Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images
“Kenyans line up in the dark at a polling station in Gatundu March 4, 2013. Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll.” REUTERS/Karel Prinsloo
Travelers on their way from Niamey, Niger, into Gao, Mali, stopped and waited in line to be searched. Malian soldiers scoured Gao on Monday for remnants of the radical Islamic fighters who engaged in an hourslong fight with French and Malian soldiers and eventually fled. (Jerome Delay/AP)
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