A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Esa Alexander / Reuters
A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday.
Luc Gnago / Reuters
Four-year-old Maëlis Kouakou dresses up for Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Marco Longari / AFP
The children’s parade gets going at the Luanda Carnival in Angola on Saturday…
Julio Pacheco Ntela / AFP
The theme for this year’s carnival is 50 years of Angolan independence.
Hector Quintanar / Getty Images
On Tuesday,people of African descent get ready for the Carnival of Coyolillo in Mexico. Their dances are described as being similar to others found in Mozambique, Mali and Zambia.
Emmanuel Adegboye / EPA
On the same day in Ibadan, Nigeria, art historian and designer Olushola Olajobi shows some of his pieces made from waste products.
Olympia de Maismont / AFP
The next day in Lagos, fashion designer Florentina Agu displays some of her creations.
Olympia de Maismont / AFP
Days earlier in the same city, Omobolaji Oyeleye, who runs a private security company, stands at the gates at one of her work sites in the upmarket Ikoyi suburb.
Abdul Bah Jalanzo / EPA
On Monday, motorcycle taxi drivers in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, protest against the new ban on all motorcycle transport in the city.
Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Namibians pay their respects to the country’s first president, Sam Nujoma, before his burial on Saturday.
Tiziana Fabi / AFP
On the same day, a well-wisher draped in the Congolese flag prays for the health of Pope Francis in the Italian capital, Rome.
Simon Maina / AFP
In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Catholic worshippers mark Ash Wednesday.
Robert Ciuccio / AFP
A woman joins evening prayers in South Africa’s Gauteng province on Sunday, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
Cem Ozdel / Getty Images
That evening after sundown at Senegal’s famous Massalikoul Djinane mosque, Muslims break their fast at the first iftar dinner of Ramadan.
Kim Ludbrook / EPA
At sunrise on Thursday, canoeists glide across the Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cem Ozdel / Getty Images
And at The Gambia’s Bijilo Forest Park on Wednesday, a curious red colobus monkey peers at the camera.
Devastating attacks on a camp hosting hundreds of thousands of people who had fled Sudan’s civil war have continued for a third day, residents have told the BBC. One person in the Zamzam camp described the situation as “extremely catastrophic” while another said things were “dire”. More than 100 civilians,…
Ahead of the United States presidential elections on Tuesday, public opinion polls had predicted a neck-and-neck race between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Yet eventually, Trump cruised to a comfortable victory, defying most polls. He has already won five of the seven swing states – Pennsylvania, Georgia, North…
EPA Four ancient gold artefacts were stolen from a Dutch museum in an overnight raid in the early hours of Saturday morning. Thieves used explosives to blast their way into the Drents Museum in Assen, which was hosting an exhibition of priceless Romanian jewellery made from gold and silver. They…
The 2024 Summer Olympics will get under way in Paris on July 26. Al Jazeera picks out the top five rivalries to watch at the upcoming Games: Women’s 400m Freestyle – a trio of the world record holders Three of the biggest stars in world swimming – Katie Ledecky, Ariarne…
The newly installed government in Haiti has announced the replacement of the head of the beleaguered national police force, in the latest effort to respond to gang violence in the crisis-wracked country. Police chief Frantz Elbe will be replaced with former chief Rameau Normil, the prime minister’s office has confirmed….
NewsFeed The UN is readying 1.6 million doses of polio vaccine for children in Gaza as the disease spreads across the devastated strip. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that if a cease fire is not enacted, then a “polio pause” would be necessary for a vaccination campaign to take place. Published…
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Esa Alexander / Reuters
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