A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Saturday, pro-cannabis demonstrators in South Africa call on the government to speed up legalisation.
Aya Nakamura poses for photographs at New York’s Met Gala on Monday. The Malian-born, French-raised singer suffered a racist backlash when she was mooted as a performer for the forthcoming Paris Olympics Games.
Young South Sudanese refugees show their footballing prowess at an academy in Egypt on Friday.
On the same day, this soldier from the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army patrols a refugee camp in Algeria for people from the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
Worshippers mark the eve of Ethiopian Orthodox Easter in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Sunday.
Tourists hand a banana to a monkey on the edge of Ivory Coast’s sacred Gbeupleu forest on Saturday.
A devastating building collapse on Tuesday trapped dozens of people in the South African city of George – the search for survivors is ongoing.
And on Saturday, in The Gambia’s capital, Banjul, people sit and walk beside the ocean.Source BBC
