A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:
With eye-catching headgear, Nigerian singer Tems arrives at a fund-raising gala in New York on Monday, where the works of fashion designer Karl Lagerfield were on display under the theme A Line of Beauty.Headgear of a different kind was on display at an exotic animal fair held in South Africa’s main city Johannesburg on Sunday.While on Saturday, this auto mechanic works on a vehicle in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, doing a job rarely associated with women.Three days later in the same city, this boy walks past a torched bus with a bouquet of flowers, after an opposition protest turned violent.Still in Kenya, women pray for televangelist Ezekiel Odero as he appears in court in the coastal city of Mombasa on Thursday. He has been detained, along with another pastor, on suspicion of murder following the discovery of scores of bodies in a remote forest. He denies the charges.On Monday, Egyptian guard Abd El-Sayed gets ready to lock the 3,200-year-old Abu Simbel temple on the upper reaches of the River Nile in Aswan.On Friday in northern Egypt’s Sharkia governorate, a young boy happily carries a stack of wheat…While these women and children are transported in a van following a harvest that has seen Egypt increase wheat production to compensate for shortages caused by the war in Ukraine.In Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, this man carries fish on his motorbike as he rides along a flooded street.In Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, popular gospel singer KS Bloom performs during a music festival on Sunday…Fans are in a frenzy as they see their favourite musicians on stage.At an amphitheatre in the Tunisian city of El Jem, a performance of a different takes place on Sunday – the re-enactment of life from the era of the Roman Empire.A man known as a “Senegalese Sniper” attends a meeting with President Macky Sall on Sunday. He is among nine men who fought for France between the 1940s and 1960s in Algeria and Vietnam…Aged between 85 and 96, they were forced to live in France to receive an old-age pension, but have now returned home.
