A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
With a week to go before Mozambique’s general election, flyers from political parties are seen plastered on walls in the city of Chimoio on Monday. [JOSE COELHO / EPA]
Classic cars go on show at this event in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday. It attracted visitors and competitors from across East Africa. [GERALD ANDERSON / GETTY IMAGES]
In Ivory Coast on Saturday, a model wears this dress made of chocolates during National Cocoa and Chocolate Days. [LUC GNAGO / REUTERS]
South Africa Fashion Week is in full swing in Johannesburg… [LEFTY SHIVAMBU / GETTY IMAGES]
These designs are from Imprint by Mzukisi Mbane… [LEFTY SHIVAMBU / GETTY IMAGES]
And these shoes are from the Essie Apparel collection by Enhle Mbali. [LEFTY SHIVAMBU / GETTY IMAGES]
Mechanics get to work in Nairobi on Friday, fixing cars and recycling parts. [GERALD ANDERSON / GETTY IMAGES]
On Tuesday a taxi driver shouts out in agreement with protesters who are fed up of crippling living costs. They are on the streets of Lagos on Nigerian Independence Day to voice their frustration with the country’s lack of progress. [ADEKUNLE AJAYI / GETTY IMAGES]
Days earlier in the same city, people take part in the Slum Party dance festival… [OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP]
The group say they use performance art to “redefine the perception” of informal settlements in Nigeria. [OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP]
Pelicans huddle on the water at Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park on Saturday. [JAMES KAMAU WAKIBIA / GETTY IMAGES]
A hunter collects birds to eat in north-eastern Egypt on Wednesday. Conservationists have criticised the practice of trapping migratory birds but locals say it is an important food source. [ALI MOUSTAFA / GETTY IMAGES]
On Satuday in France, Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr poses on the red carpet at a Paris Fashion Week event. [GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP ]
Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara performs at the Joy of Jazz festival in Sandton, South Africa, on Saturday. [OUPA BOPAPE / EPA]
Ethiopia’s Milkesa Mengesha collapses on the ground with relief after winning the Berlin Marathon in Germany on Sunday. [JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP]
Grief-stricken relatives of people who died in a ferry accident speak to the media on Thursday. The vessel sank in Lake Kivu near Kituku port, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [REUTERS]
The day before in Mali’s capital city Bamako, children sit in canoes on flooded roads. [OUSMANE MAKAVELI / AFP]
Residents of Leribe, in Lesotho, dance and sing to welcome Prince Harry and other delegates who have come to see a climate resilience project on Wednesday. [BRIAN OTIENO / GETTY IMAGES]
On Monday, women sell peanuts at a market in Guinea-Bissau’s capital, Bissau. [RICCI SHRYOCK / AFP]
On Tuesday, Eric Manigaba plays with his son after coming home from an Mpox treatment centre. They have faced stigma in their local community in Burundi because of fears of the virus. [EVRARD NGENDAKUMANA / REUTERS]
And on Friday in South Africa’s Western Cape province, Mararet Maritz celebrates her birthday with family members. They say she is now 118 years old. [ESA ALEXANDER / REUTERS]
From the BBC in Africa this week:
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