A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week:
AFP
Model Winfrida Metili shows off a colourful hair extension at the Swahili Fashion week in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam on Friday…
AFP
While this model waits her turn to go on stage with a traditional head wrap and matching skirt.
Reuters
On Sunday, a disabled woman uses her tongue to take photos with a mobile phone at a basketball tournament in the Sudanese city of Omdurman…
Reuters
While some players warm up for what was the first wheelchair basketball tournament in Sudan.
AP
At a sports stadium in Ghana’s capital, Accra, on Monday, women painted in the colours of the governing National Democratic Congress rally support for the party ahead of Wednesday’s tightly contested election.
AP
A day earlier, the main opposition New Patriotic Party held its rally, with a man drumming up support from the top of a mock elephant, which has Christian and Islamic messages written on it.
Reuters
On Thursday, a Bride of Moulid (an Arabic word for birthday) is on sale in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, where many Muslims are celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad in what they call the Year of the Elephant.
EPA
A day earlier. children in South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg, play next to a wall which depicts an underwater world and advertises alcohol with a warning to those aged under 18 not to drink.
AFP
While these two children are seen on Sunday in front of a portrait of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and South Sudan’s founding leader John Garang in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. Cuba helped many South Sudanese refugees acquire an education before independence in 2011.
Reuters
On Tuesday, the world’s oldest president, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, leaves parliament in Harare after delivering his State of the Nation address. It lasted for about 30 minutes, one of the shortest delivered by the 92-year-old.
Reuters
In Senegal a day earlier, exiled Gambian Ebrima Sanneh walks on a beach as he ponders the future following the stunning defeat of authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh in elections.
AP
On Monday in The Gambia’s capital, Banjul, police remove handcuffs from a political prisoner freed on bail, in a sign that the era of repression in the West African state is ending.
Images courtesy of AFP, AP, EPA, Reuters
