A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent:
HELLE ARENSBAK/AFP Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems takes to the stage at Denmark’s Roskilde music festival on Saturday.
RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP On the same day in Durban, South Africa, flamboyant fashion reigns at the races…
RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP The city hosts a yearly horse racing event that also features local designers…
ROGAN WARD/REUTERS Many outfits this year featured a clash of colours…
RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP And large headgear was de rigeur.
AHMAD HASABALLAH/GETTY IMAGES In the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Sufi Muslims celebrate the Islamic New Year on Sunday.
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP In the same city on Wednesday, a craftsman shapes a fez – or tarboosh – using a mould.
MICHELE CATTANI/AFP A seller of second-hand car parts sits in his workshop in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on Monday.
HAMZA ZAIT/GETTY IMAGES On Saturday, riders charge and fire muskets at an independence day event in Algeria’s capital, Algiers.
VINCENT THIAN/GETTY IMAGES Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the president of Guinea-Bissau, inspects troops on a visit to China on Wednesday.
GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon breaks her own world record in the women’s 1,500m race at a Diamond League event in France on Sunday.
PEERAPON BOONYAKIAT/GETTY IMAGES The same day in Thailand, Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna competes at the World Table Tennis Star Contender Bangkok 2024.
TIM DE WAELE/GETTY IMAGES Biniam Girmay is back in the saddle on Sunday after winning stage eight of the Tour de France the previous day. The Eritrean cyclist said of an earlier stage win, “I never cry, but inside I am – I just have no words.”
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP Farmers pick prickly pears in northern Egypt on Friday.
GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP Diane Rwigara poses for a portrait at her home in Kigali. The staunch critic of President Paul Kagame is barred from running in Monday’s election, and was imprisoned for over a year on insurrection charges before being acquitted.
MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP And on Friday, people paddle boats on an artificial lake in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
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