Africa's week in pictures: 2-8 February 2024 - BBC News

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

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Image source, ARLETTE BASHIZI/REUTERSImage caption, It's time for make-up backstage at One Fashion Week in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.Image source, CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPAImage caption, The next day in the US, Nigerian singer Ayra Starr arrives at the Grammy Awards...Image source, VALERIE MACON/AFPImage caption, Later that evening, Burna Boy brings the house down with a performance that featured the singer Brandy and rapper 21 Savage among others...Image source, AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, 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.Image source, CHRIS DELMAS/AFPImage caption, 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.Image source, JALAL MORCHIDI/EPAImage caption, 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.Image source, SIA KAMBOU/AFPImage caption, Fans watch as DR Congo triumph over Guinea in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) quarter-final on Friday....Image source, SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERSImage caption, Days later, Nigeria beat South Africa in the semi-finals...Image source, KIM LUDBROOK/EPAImage caption, After winning a nail-biting penalty shoot-out.Image source, MICHELE SPATARI/AFPImage caption, A man resets bowling pins by hand at this complex in Addis Ababa which dates back to 1955....Image source, MICHELE SPATARI/AFPImage caption, Guenet Bowling alley was opened by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie himself.Image source, HASAN MRAD/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Protesters wave this banner with the names of missing migrants at a rally in Tunisia's capital on Tuesday.Image source, DANIEL IRUNGU/EPAImage caption, 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.Image source, FADEL SENNA/AFPImage caption, 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.Image source, ARLETTE BASHIZI/REUTERSImage caption, 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...Image source, AUBIN MUKONI/AFPImage caption, 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.Image source, DARIO BELINGHERI/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Top Eritrean cyclist Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier is glimpsed through tangerine fields in Spain's Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana on Sunday.Image source, MICHELE CATTANI/AFPImage caption, Activist Falla Fleur, whose real name is Ndeye Fatou Fall, has been detained since May last year for organising opposition protests in Senegal...Image source, CEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, 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.Image source, SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFPImage caption, On Wednesday, Egyptian diver Mohamed Farouk competes at the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar...Image source, QUINN ROONEY/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, And days earlier, Team Egypt's synchronised swimmers take formation.Images subject to copyright

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