Africa's week in pictures: 16-22 February 2024 - BBC News

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

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Image source, Tahsin Ceylan/Getty ImageImage caption, A sea turtle swims in the Red Sea off Egypt on Sunday.Image source, Octavio Passos/Getty ImagesImage caption, Kenyan golfer Chanelle Wangari Mwangi tees off at the Africa Amateur Women's Invitational in South Africa on Thursday.Image source, Khaled Elfiqi/EPAImage caption, On Sunday, pupils attend a Sudanese-curriculum school in the city of Giza in Egypt.Image source, Roberto Serra/Getty ImagesImage caption, Artworks by Mozambique's Gonçalo Mabunda are on show at an exhibition in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday.Image source, Hannibal Hanschke/EPAImage caption, On Saturday, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o graces the red carpet at this year's Berlin film festival, where she is serving as international jury president.Image source, Alet Pretorius/ReutersImage caption, Earlier that day, lions are released into a sanctuary in South Africa after being rescued from Sudan.Image source, Kim Hong-Ji/ReutersImage caption, Egypt's Alhodaby Mariam takes on Ukraine's Anastasiya Dymytrenko at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in South Korea on Monday.Image source, Peter Klaunzer/EPAImage caption, This piece is part of the Shooting Down Babylon exhibition by South African artist Tracey Rose currently on show in Switzerland.Image source, LEGNAN KOULA/EPAImage caption, This man sells jeans by the roadside in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Wednesday.Image source, Thomas Mukoya/ReutersImage caption, Time is money in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, where this man waits outside a currency exchange bureau.Image source, Esa Alexander/ReutersImage caption, Squatters are forcibly removed from an area of Cape Town known as "tent city" on Thursday.Image source, Esa Alexander/ReutersImage caption, Days earlier in the same South African city, a busker plays at traffic lights.Image source, Jerome Favre/EPAImage caption, Drummers play at a rally for presidential hopeful Khalifa Sall in Senegal on Tuesday...Image source, John Wessels/AFPImage caption, Days earlier thousands of Senegalese march to demand that the authorities make good on their promise to hold elections without delay.Image source, Guerchom Ndebo/AFPImage caption, Yambua Jeannine, 60, builds a makeshift home on Friday after fleeing fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels who are widely said to be backed by Rwanda...Image source, Moise Kasereka/EPAImage caption, Rwanda denies that it is backing the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, forcing millions of people to flee their homes.Image source, Esa Alexander/ReutersImage caption, Meanwhile in South Africa on Tuesday, people criticise the global food trade of live animals. The stench emanating from a single ship in Cape Town's harbour carrying thousands of cows has bothered residents.Image source, Luis Tato/AFPImage caption, And mourners gather to pay their last respects to Kenya's world-record holding marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum on Thursday before he is laid to rest.Images subject to copyright

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