Africa’s week in pictures: 3-9 February 2024
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
It’s time for make-up backstage at One Fashion Week in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
The next day in the US, Nigerian singer Ayra Starr arrives at the Grammy Awards…
Later that evening, Burna Boy brings the house down with a performance that featured the singer Brandy and rapper 21 Savage among others…
But the night belonged to South Africa’s Tyla. “This is crazy! I never thought I’d say I won a Grammy at 22 years old!” she said as she collected the first African Music Performance Grammy award.
Also in Los Angeles, Zimbabwean actress and producer Danai Gurira flashes her gold manicure on the red carpet for her TV series The Walking Dead, on Wednesday.
Caftans are the latest special exhibition at Morocco’s Jewellery Museum in Rabat on Thursday. Some are borrowed from the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh and the haute couture house of the designer Zahour Rais.
Fans watch as DR Congo triumph over Guinea in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) quarter-final on Friday….
Days later, Nigeria beat South Africa in the semi-finals…
After winning a nail-biting penalty shoot-out.
A man resets bowling pins by hand at this complex in Addis Ababa which dates back to 1955….
Guenet Bowling alley was opened by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie himself.
Protesters wave this banner with the names of missing migrants at a rally in Tunisia’s capital on Tuesday.
A man stands in the wreckage of a house that was destroyed by a fire in Kenya’s capital city on Thursday, killing six people. Residents said the authorities had ignored their reports about a gas leak hours before.
On Monday in northern Morocco, archaeologist Anass Sedrati examines a set of ancient footprints believed to have been left by humans more than 100,000 years ago.
People light candles at a vigil for murdered civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where M23 rebels and the Congolese army are locked in conflict…
Thousand of people, including this little girl, have had to run away from their homes with the few belongings they can carry. Close to seven million people in the country are displaced – the highest number on record.
Top Eritrean cyclist Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier is glimpsed through tangerine fields in Spain’s Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana on Sunday.
Activist Falla Fleur, whose real name is Ndeye Fatou Fall, has been detained since May last year for organising opposition protests in Senegal…
Hundreds of outraged Senegalese citizens have protested in recent days at President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone elections. Opposition MPs were thrown out of the voting chamber when the bill approving the delay was passsed.
On Wednesday, Egyptian diver Mohamed Farouk competes at the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar…
And days earlier, Team Egypt’s synchronised swimmers take formation.
