A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Chris Jackson / Getty ImagesCarnival-goers don big and bright costumes in Cape Town on Wednesday…
Chris Jackson / Getty ImagesThe South African city is home to multiple parades each year.
Jermone Favre / EPAClimate activist Khady Camara leads a women’s march in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday ahead of the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. One of their banners reads: “Soum district has had no clean drinking water since 2015.”
Siphiwe Sibeko / ReutersOn Thursday, this woman voices her outrage and holds up tear-gas canisters fired by security forces at protesters in Mozambique. Election observers say they found evidence of vote-tampering during October’s general election, and opposition demonstrations continue.
Amaury Falt-Brown / AFPMen eat after Friday prayers at a mosque ridden with bullet holes in the Sudanese city of Omdurman…
Amaury Falt-Brown / AFPDays later across the River Nile in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, an army soldier looks for RSF paramilitaries. Both sides in the civil war are accused by rights groups of committing atrocities against civilians.
Laura Morosol / AFPSupporters of Mauritius’ opposition Change Alliance join a election rally in the capital, Port Louis, on Sunday.
Teresa Suarez / EPAA photo series of intricate braiding and threading styles shot by Nigeria’s JD Okhai Ojeikere is on display in Paris, France, on Wednesday.
Anthony Kwan / Getty ImagesUgandan-Canadian model and actress Whitney Peak attends a fashion show in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
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Legnan Koula / EPAFriday is All Saint’s Day, and a moment for prayer and reflection for this woman visiting a cemetery in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Amos Gumulira / AFPWomen who are refugees living in central Malawi dance at the Tumaini Festival on Saturday…
Amos Gumulira / AFPMalawian musician Jetu, 72, also performed at the event – which is billed as the world’s only music festival at a refugee camp.
Julien de Rosa / AFPOn Monday, Kamel Daoud wins France’s top literary award – the Prix Goncourt – for a book which has been banned in his native Algeria. The novel is called Houris and centres on Algeria’s civil war.
Julien de Rosa / AFPAt the same awards ceremony, France’s Prix Renaudot went to Gael Faye for his latest novel Jacaranda. Faye was born and raised in Burundi by a Rwandan mother and French father.
Yamak Perea / Getty ImagesMiss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina wears a floral headdress at the the Miss Universe Catrinas Gala in Mexico on Friday.
Nic Bothma / ReutersOn Thursday, anti-monarchy protesters oppose Prince William’s visit to South Africa where he was promoting an environmental award.
Cem Ozdel / Getty ImagesA pelican which has become a local celebrity in Senegal’s city of Saint Louis is pictured on Saturday outside a retired fisherman’s house, where he has lived for the last five years.
Rodger Bosch / AFPAnd in Cape Town on Friday, endangered African penguins rest on a beach.
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