Africa's week in pictures: 12-18 April 2024 - BBC News

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

13 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingA selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

Image source, EMANUELE CREMASCHI/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Art lovers take in these works by Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu during Milano Art Week in Italy on Friday...Image source, MARCO BERTORELLO/AFPImage caption, Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses on Tuesday as she prepares for the 2024 Olympics.Image source, PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFPImage caption, Kenyan skateboarders take part in the Amps & Ramps contest in Nairobi on Saturday.Image source, BIENVENIDO VELASCO/EPAImage caption, On the same day, people of African descent take part in the Congo dance at a festival in the Central American nation of Panama.Image source, MICHELE SPATARI/AFPImage caption, On Tuesday, Ethiopians in the ancient city of Harar celebrate the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year.Image source, LEGNAN KOULA/EPAImage caption, The King of Pop graces this bus in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Friday. Michael Jackson was also crowned the king of a village during a visit to the country in 1992.Image source, ISSOUF SANOGO/AFPImage caption, Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso's Fientan group take to the stage at the African Entertainment Arts Market in Ivory Coast on Wednesday...Image source, ISSOUF SANOGO/AFPImage caption, Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville.Image source, NURETTIN BOYDAK/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Craftsmen dye animal skins at this tannery in Fez, northern Morocco, on Wednesday.Image source, ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERSImage caption, South African surfers are shrouded in morning mists on Muizenberg beach on Thursday.Image source, LEGNAN KOULA/EPAImage caption, A Dipri festival-goer holds a blade to his tongue on Saturday. Acts like these are part of a community ceremony in south-eastern Ivory Coast of honouring sacrifices made by an ancestor who saved them from hunger.Image source, MOHAMED HOSSAM/EPAImage caption, In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago.Image source, CEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Days earlier, handmade items hang next to a wall on Senegal's famous clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island.Image source, DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFPImage caption, On Saturday in Cameroon, royals and a guardian surround the Bamoun throne...Image source, DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFPImage caption, And ceremonial gunfire kicks off the official opening of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in the city of Foumban.Images subject to copyright

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