Africa’s week in pictures: 19-25 April 2024
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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
British-Somali athlete Mo Farah poses for a selfie with a little girl at the launch of a digital library in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Sunday.
Members of Senegal’s Sencirk circus troupe, founded by a former beggar, perform in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, on Saturday…
Ivory Coast’s national ballet also takes to the stage at Abidjan’s Culture Palace on Saturday.
A woman pulls a trolley with recyclable material past veld fires outside South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg, on Monday.
Motorists drive through a sandstorm in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on the same day.
A young woman and her daughter pose for a portrait in the Chadian town of Adre on Saturday after fleeing conflict across the border in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Waves of dust from the Sahara Desert reach Greece, settling on the capital, Athens, on Tuesday.
A young boy and his dog cross the flooded Athi River, the second-biggest in Kenya, on Tuesday as heavy rains sweep through the East African nation.
A young woman and her daughter pose for a portrait in the Chadian town of Adre on Saturday after fleeing conflict across the border in Sudan’s Darfur region.
In Ghana’s capital, Accra, traditional leaders are invited to an event where opposition presidential candidate John Mahama unveils former Education Minister Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate in December’s election.
Demonstrators on horses takes part in a protest in the Niger city of Agadez on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of US troops based in the West African state to fight jihadists…
At the same protest a man holds a placard reading Long Live Niger as hostility towards the US and former colonial power France grows in the country.
A lion yawns as a lioness lays on her back after mating in Kenya’s world-famous Maasai Mara game park on Friday.
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