Women carry Somali flags in Mogadishu, Somalia, as they wait for the arrival of the Prime Minister

A muezzin sits in a mosque in Nairobi, Kenya

A view over Goma and the Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Congo

M23 rebels withdraw towards Sake in eastern Congo

FARDC soldiers return from a firing position in eastern Congo, having attacked M23 encampments.

Internally displaced people gather at a spontaneous camp on the outskirts of Goma in eastern Congo

FARDC soldiers celebrate the ousting of M23 rebels from Bunagana in eastern Congo

A helicopter rocket pod is pictured atop a pick-up truck in eastern Libya

A Somali pastoralist prepares coffee in Puntland, Somalia.

A man fires an AK-47 in rebel-held Syria

A Syrian rebel fires as he runs across a street covered by a sniper in Aleppo

An injured Syrian rebel walks through the souq in Aleppo's UNESCO-listed Old City

A Syrian rebel runs up a stairwell in a building in Aleppo's Salaheddine district

A Syrian rebel walks through a street under shelling in Aleppo's Salaheddine district.

A man walks through the rubble of his destroyed house following an aerial bombing raid in Azaz, Syria

A lady dressed in a burka walks through the debris from an aerial bombing raid in Azaz, Syria

A Libyan rebel mounts a staircase in a building under attack in Misrata, amidst the fire from a rocket-propelled grenade

Wildlife rangers transport a tranquillised elephant during a relocation mission in Kenya's Ol Pejeta conservancy

Brewing changaa, an illegal, potent alcohol, in Nairobi's Mathare slum, Kenya

A lady carries goods to market through the capital of Guinea Bissau

Soldiers sit under a tree at an army barracks in Guinea Bissau capital

A Somali soldier walks through the old lighthouse in Mogadishu

Mogadishu's Old Lighthouse pictured from the Aruba hotel in the Somali capital

A Somali woman stands beside a shell hole revealing an informal IDP camp in Mogadishu

A man leave his home, painted with the slogan "Keep Peace Alive" by artist Solo7 in Nairobi's Kibera slum, ahead of Kenya's elections

An IDP camp sprawls over hillsides in Masisi territory in eastern Congo

A Congolese army soldier stands at the recaptured military academy in Rumangabo, an important M23 base in eastern Congo

Executed men lie on a river bank in territory in eastern Congo recently captured by M23 rebels, who accuse the Congolese army of massacring civilians

Civilians react to M23 shelling as a Congolese army truck drives past on the outskirts of Goma in eastern Congo

A Bissau-Guinean voter is pictured through a banner saying "Voto" ("vote", in Portuguese) during the Guinea Bissau elections in 2012

An Afghani refugee repairs his mud-brick home on the outskirts of Islamabad in Pakistan

Supporters of President Wade celebrate after he casts his vote in Dakar, Senegal during the 2012 elections that would see him ousted to Macky Sall

A Congolese man prays for peace during the 2011 elections in Lubumbashi

Supporters of incumbent president Joseph Kabila celebrate the announcement of his re-election in Lubumbashi, D. R. Congo in 2011

An armed private security guard stands sentry on the Jazeera beach on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia

Somali Federal Army soldiers stand sentry outside the National Theatre during a visit by the country's president in Mogadishu, 2012

A motorcycle taxi driver waits for clients outside of Juba's basketball stadium in South Sudan, several months after the country's independence in 2011

A man bows his head as he sails from Goma to Bukavu, across Lake Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Somali refugees pose for a photograph just after having crossed the Somali-Kenyan border on their way to Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp during the drought of 2011

Children hide in small caves during bombing by Sudanese forces in the Nuba Mountains, leaving their homes out of fear

A Libyan rebel holds a belt of bullets for a machine gun at a checkpoint in Ras Lanuf, during the early days of the country's revolution

A Libyan rebel looks to the skies after hearing a jet circling overhead during a day of bombings at Ras Lanuf in the early days of the Libyan revolution

A bomb, dropped by a Libyan air force plane, explodes on a house in Ras Lanuf during the early days of the Libyan revolution

A Sudanese sufi carries a drum towards a shrine in Omdurman, Sudan