A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Carnival goers don big and colorful costumes in Cape Town on Wednesday… [Chris Jackson / Getty Images]
The South African city is home to several parades every year. [Chris Jackson / Getty Images]
Climate activist Khady Camara leads a women’s march in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday ahead of the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. One of their banners reads: “The Soum district has not had clean drinking water since 2015.” [Jermone Favre / EPA]
On Thursday, this woman expresses her outrage and holds up tear gas canisters fired by security forces at demonstrators in Mozambique. Election observers say they found evidence of vote tampering during October’s general election, and opposition demonstrations continue. [Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters]
Men eat after Friday prayers in a mosque full of bullet holes in the Sudanese city of Omdurman… [Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP]
Days later, across the Nile River in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, an army soldier searches for RSF paramilitaries. Both sides in the civil war are accused by human rights groups of committing atrocities against civilians. [Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP]
Supporters of the Mauritius opposition Change Alliance take part in an election rally in the capital Port Louis on Sunday. [Laura Morosol / AFP]
A photo series of intricate braid and thread styles created by JD Okhai Ojeikere of Nigeria goes on display in Paris, France on Wednesday. [Teresa Suarez / EPA]
Ugandan-Canadian model and actress Whitney Peak attends a fashion show in Hong Kong on Tuesday. [Anthony Kwan / Getty Images]
On the same day, models in Egypt sported clothes made from recycled materials at the World Urban Forum in the capital Cairo. [Mohamed Hossam / EPA]
Friday is All Saints’ Day and a moment of prayer and reflection for this woman visiting a cemetery in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. [Legnan Koula / EPA]
Refugee women living in central Malawi dance at the Tumaini Festival on Saturday… [Amos Gumulira / AFP]
Malawian musician Jetu, 72, also performed at the event – billed as the world’s only music festival in a refugee camp. [Amos Gumulira / AFP]
At the same awards ceremony, the French Prix Renaudot went to Gael Faye for his latest novel Jacaranda. Faye was born and raised in Burundi by a Rwandan mother and a French father. [Julien de Rosa / AFP]
Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adeshina wears a floral headdress at the Miss Universe Catrinas Gala in Mexico on Friday. [Yamak Perea / Getty Images]
A pelican that has become a local celebrity in the Senegalese city of Saint Louis is pictured Saturday outside a retired fisherman’s house where it has lived for the past five years. [Cem Ozdel / Getty Images]
And on Friday, endangered African penguins rested on a beach in Cape Town. [Rodger Bosch / AFP]
