A selection of the best photos of the week from across the African continent:
As the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics approach, athletes warm up in training in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, on Saturday, hoping to win gold.
On Thursday, a man transports a sheep in an Egyptian market in the city of Giza, in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice – an important Islamic holiday.
Ocean baptisms are held on a beach in the South African city of Durban on Sunday morning.
The next day, tornado-like storms hit the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, causing flooding and a huge amount of damage, as shown here on Tuesday…
More than 20 people died in the severe weather conditions. Here, a community comes together to clean up some of the flood water in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.
On Saturday, representatives of the Ashanti King of Ghana brought pomp and fanfare to the funeral of Ivory Coast’s late president Henri Konan Bédié, who was buried 10 months after his death in his home village of Pépressou in eastern Ivory Coast…
Delegations from the region traveled to pay tribute to Bédié, who served as president of Côte d’Ivoire from 1993 to 1999, when he was deposed in a coup d’état.
A performer from Senegal’s famous Fake Lion beach entertainment show poses for the camera Wednesday at a cultural event in the capital, Dakar…
At the same event, the competition is fierce to win the pirogue race.
On the same day, a four-year-old girl prepares to plant a tree along the Mathare River, near her old home in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, which was destroyed by floods a few weeks ago.
Students in Nigeria appear completely fed up as they find themselves excluded from school on Monday due to a nationwide general strike to demand an increase in the minimum wage.
And a mobile library, known as the “Taxi Book,” is pictured in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Monday. Mohamed Azzam decided to use his taxi to spread the love of reading, offering textbooks and novels to passers-by.
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