Africa’s week in pictures: 11-17 August 2023
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
Street children practise acrobatics on unicycles in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Monday…
They are part of a circus academy set up a few year ago by 30-year-old Kiyoro Olalekan, who also grew up homeless.
South Africans gather at the main airport in Johannesburg on Saturday to send-off the Springboks to the Rugby World Cup in France.
On the same day in Johannesburg, a woman waits to flag off a motorcycle race at an annual event where participants race to the rule that there are no rules.
The winner of the Miss South Africa beauty pageant, Natasha Joubert (L), is hugged by last year’s title holder, Ndavi Nokeri, on Sunday in the capital, Pretoria.
Also on Sunday, the Giants of Africa Festival kicks off in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, with an energetic opening ceremony…
It is a week-long gathering for young people from 16 African countries who are taking part in basketball and other sporting and cultural events.
South Sudan’s Wenyen Gabriel warms up in Melbourne before a basketball game against Australia on Thursday. It is a friendly ahead of the Basketball World Cup that starts later this month.
On Wednesday, farm workers are pictured at a rice paddy near Niamey, the capital of Niger where the military seized power last month…
Supporters of Niger’s junta gather on Friday in Niamey outside a French military base…
They shout slogans against France, the former colonial power, and the West African bloc Ecowas, which opposes the coup…
Drivers stuck at Benin’s border with Niger because of sanctions imposed by Ecowas are seen in makeshift accommodation set up by their lorries on Wednesday.
A tannery worker in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday uses traditional methods to process leather…
The skins are exported to various countries to be used in the production of shoes, clothes and other fashion accessories.
On the same day, Nigeria’s Ese Ukpeseraye is all smiles before the Women’s Elite and Under-23 race in the Scottish city of Glasgow, the final event of the UCI Cycling World Championships.
Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema appears in a South African court on Tuesday in connection with an extradition application for him to face trial in Tanzania.
Young boys play on Thursday on a pirogue in Fass Boye, the town in Senegal from where a boat set sail in July that was found off Cape Verde this week with many feared dead.
The day before, Egypt’s Mayar Sherif serves to US tennis player Coco Gauff during a match in the American state of Ohio.
And a Palestinian oud player performs on Monday at the Carthage International Festival in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis.
