A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent:
image source, Amanuel Sileshi/AFP
As the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics approach, athletes are training in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, on Saturday in hopes of winning gold.
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A man carries a sheep in an Egyptian market in the city of Giza in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice – a major Islamic holiday – on Thursday.
image source, Alastair Russell/Reuters
Ocean baptisms take place early Sunday morning on a beach in the city of Durban, South Africa.
image source, Rajesh Jantilal/AFP
The next day, tornado-like storms hit the country’s KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, causing flooding and massive damage, as pictured here on Tuesday…
image source, Gianluigi Guercia/AFP
More than 20 people lost their lives due to the bad weather conditions. Here a community comes together to clean up some of the flood water in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.
image source, Issouf Sanogo/AFP
On Saturday, representatives of the Ashanti King of Ghana bring pomp and fanfare to the funeral of the late Ivorian president Henri Konan Bédié, who was laid to rest 10 months after his death, in the village of Pépressou in eastern Ivory Coast…
image source, Issouf Sanogo/AFP
Delegations from the region traveled to honor Bédié, who served as Ivory Coast’s president from 1993 to 1999, when he was ousted in a coup.
image source, John Wessels/AFP
A performer at Senegal’s famous Fake Lion beach entertainment show poses for the camera on Wednesday at a cultural event in the capital, Dakar…
image source, John Wessels/AFP
In the same event, the competition is fierce for the victory in the pirogue race.
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On the same day, a four-year-old girl prepares to plant a tree along the Mathare River near her old home in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, which was destroyed by floods a few weeks ago.
image source, Kola Sulaimon/AFP
Students in Nigeria appeared completely fed up on Monday to find themselves locked out of school due to a nationwide general strike to demand an increase in the minimum wage.
image source, Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
And a mobile library, known as the ‘Book Taxi’, is pictured in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Monday. Mohammad Azam decided to use his taxi to spread the love of reading by offering books and novels to passers-by.
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From the BBC in Africa this week:
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