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 the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday. [John Muchucha/Reuters]
Members of the Senegalese circus group Sencirk, founded by a former beggar, will perform on Saturday in the capital of Ivory Coast, Abidjan… [Luc Gnago/Reuters]
The national ballet of Ivory Coast will also be on stage at the Palace of Culture in Abidjan on Saturday. [Luc Gnago/Reuters]
A woman pulls a cart with recyclable material past field fires outside South Africa’s capital, Johannesburg, on Monday. [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]
Motorists drive through a sandstorm in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on the same day. [Abdullah Doma/AFP ]
Waves of dust from the Sahara reach Greece and settle in the capital Athens on Tuesday. [Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP]
A young boy and his dog cross the flooded Athi River, Kenya’s second largest, on Tuesday as heavy rains pound the East African country. [Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images]
A young woman and her daughter pose for a portrait in the Chadian town of Adre on Saturday after fleeing the border conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region. [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]
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 the December elections. [Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images]
Protesters on horseback take part in a protest in the Niger city of Agadez on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of US troops in the West African state to fight jihadists… [Issifou Djibo/EPA]
At the same protest, a man holds a sign that reads Long Live Niger: Hostility towards the US and former colonial power France is growing in the country. [Issifou Djibo/EPA]
A lion yawns as a lioness lies on her back after mating in Kenya’s world-famous Maasai Mara game park. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
