Africa’s week in pictures: 5-11 April 2024
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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Two members of Senegal’s Baye Fall community, a Muslim group whose followers wear colourful clothing, greet each other on Friday in Diourbel as they gather to cook a meal to break their Ramadan fast.
A supporter of Ivory Coast’s ex-President Laurant Gbagbo attends at event in Agboville, where the veteran politician said he still had presidential ambitions – despite being currently ineligible to stand.
The next day in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, a girl learns how to make kahk biscuits being prepared ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr…
It is one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic calendar. As the sun rises near Egypt’s pyramids in Giza on Wednesday, people take selfies and wait to attend Eid prayers…
For Eid prayers in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, people gather at a cricket field at the Ali Muslim Club Ground…
At a rugby field in the South African city of Cape Town, Muslim volunteers prepare to feed more than 90,000 people for Eid…
Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of Ramadan, and means “festival of the breaking of the fast”. Here a woman at Eid prayers in Nigeria’s city of Lagos has decorated her hands with henna…
During the Eid celebrations, people often dress up in new clothes, like these girls in the Senegalese town of Cap Skirring…
This woman in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, wears white like others in her district who gather for Eid prayers on the beach…
During the festivities in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, boys play with toy guns given to them for the occassion.
It is a day for Muslims to relax and recover, here men play cards on the side of the road in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena…
In Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, people flock to an amusement park – here flying high on eagles, a bird of prey on the country’s coat of arms…
Others choose a more grounded ride at Magic Land…
While horsemen participating in Nigeria’s Zazzau Emirates Eid events are pictured in their finery Kaduna, north of Abuja.
A more mundane outfit is warn by this equestrian for a show-jumping competition in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday.
Kenyan medics in Nairobi protest on Tuesday over salary arrears and delays by the government to deploy medical interns.
An exhibit called The War Library by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare is pictured at a gallery in London on Thursday. The bookshelves are full of wax-print-covered books about warfare.
A vegetable vendor in Cape Town continues to work on Monday despite heavy rain and gale-force winds.
In Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighbourhood, famous for its colourfully painted houses and a traditionally Muslim area, a pro-Palestinian mural is seen on Friday.
And players from the Zambian women’s football team celebrate their qualification for the Olympics after beating Morocco in Rabat on Tuesday.
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