Africa’s week in pictures: 12-18 April 2024
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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Art lovers take in these works by Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu during Milano Art Week in Italy on Friday…
Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses on Tuesday as she prepares for the 2024 Olympics.
Kenyan skateboarders take part in the Amps & Ramps contest in Nairobi on Saturday.
On the same day, people of African descent take part in the Congo dance at a festival in the Central American nation of Panama.
On Tuesday, Ethiopians in the ancient city of Harar celebrate the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year.
The King of Pop graces this bus in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, on Friday. Michael Jackson was also crowned the king of a village during a visit to the country in 1992.
Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso’s Fientan group take to the stage at the African Entertainment Arts Market in Ivory Coast on Wednesday…
Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville.
Craftsmen dye animal skins at this tannery in Fez, northern Morocco, on Wednesday.
South African surfers are shrouded in morning mists on Muizenberg beach on Thursday.
A Dipri festival-goer holds a blade to his tongue on Saturday. Acts like these are part of a community ceremony in south-eastern Ivory Coast of honouring sacrifices made by an ancestor who saved them from hunger.
In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost to half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago.
Days earlier, handmade items hang next to a wall on Senegal’s famous clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island.
On Saturday in Cameroon, royals and a guardian surround the Bamoun throne…
And ceremonial gunfire kicks off the official opening of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in the city of Foumban.
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