Africa's week in pictures: 31 October-7 November 2025


A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:

Feisal Omar / Reuters A boys jumps through the air into the sea where other children are swimming in Mogadishu, Somalia - Thursday 6 November 2025. Feisal Omar / Reuters

It is a daring high jump for a boy in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as he joins others cooling off in the Indian Ocean waters on Thursday…

Feisal Omar / Reuters A group of camels pictured from below chew animal feed in Mogadishu, Somalia - Friday 31 October 2025.Feisal Omar / Reuters

Camels on the outskirts of the Somali capital enjoy food from a trough on Friday at a facility set up to help herders and their animals survive the drought.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters An Egyptian man walks past a shop in the morning. On the shutters is painted a mural of a woman wearing red glasses - Saturday 1 November 2025. Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Olympia de Maismont / AFP / Getty Images A model wears a big blue hat and matching dress in Lagos - Friday 31 October 2025.Olympia de Maismont / AFP / Getty Images

Bold blue designs by Bubu Ogisi are showcased in Nigeria at Lagos Fashion Week on Friday.

Toyin Addokun / AFP / Getty Images Two women put on earrings as they get ready. One is in an orange and white stripped outfit the other is in a cream and maroon dress - Friday 31 October 2025.Toyin Addokun / AFP / Getty Images

On the same day, further north in Nigeria’s Kwara State, brides-to-be get ready for the Awon mass wedding – an annual event.

Jalal Morchidi / EPA / Shutterstock Female football players from Chad in yellow shirts celebrate and wave the national flag on the pitch - Saturday 1 November 2025.Jalal Morchidi / EPA / Shutterstock

Chad triumph over Tunisia in the Fifa Unites women’s football series in Morocco on Saturday.

Brenton Geach /Gallo Images / Getty Images Participants wearing fake blood and scabs taken part in the Zombie Walk Festival in Cape Town, South Africa - Saturday 1 November 2025.Brenton Geach /Gallo Images / Getty Images

On the same day, Halloween costumes and ghoulish disguises abound at Cape Town’s Zombie Walk charity fundraiser in South Africa.

Gerald Anderson / Anadolu / Getty Images A group of Rastafarian people - some in stripped yellow, red and green hats - gather under a tree in Rongai, Kenya. One is playing a drum, another holds a tambourine as they sing and clap - Sunday 2 November 2025.Gerald Anderson / Anadolu / Getty Images

The next day, Rastafarian faithful in the Kenyan town of Rongai celebrate the 95th anniversary of the coronation of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor.

Patrick Meinhardt / AFP / Getty Images An altar boy in white carries a cross as he leads the procession to the cemetery on the island of Fadiouth - Saturday 1 November 2025.Patrick Meinhardt / AFP / Getty Images

All Saint’s Day in the Christian calendar is traditionally a time to remember the dead. This procession in Fadiouth, Senegal, on Saturday heads to a local cemetery.

Jalal Morchidi / EPA / Shutterstock Women in colourful headdresses clap and celebrate in Laayoune - Thursday 6 November 2025.Jalal Morchidi / EPA / Shutterstock
Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Images Members of the Tanzanian navy march in formation as they take part in a rehearsal for the inauguration of Zanzibar's president - Friday 31 October 2025.Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Images

On Friday, naval officers rehearse ahead of the inauguration of Zanzibar’s president. The archipelago, off the east coast of Africa, is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania…

AFP / Getty Images Three female women - two wearing terracotta headscarves - in tears at a funeral in Mwanza, Tanzania - Thursday 6 November 2025. AFP / Getty Images
Mourners on mainland Tanzania attend the funeral of an opposition Chadema party official on Thursday. The party says he was among hundreds it believes were killed in a crackdown on post-election protests that saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan elected.
Luc Gnago / Reuters Guinean leader Mamadi Doumbouya in a smart, embroidered white boubou and dark sunglasses waves after submitting his candidacy at the Supreme Court a Conakry, Guinea, Monday 3 November 2025. Luc Gnago / Reuters
Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images Geese on a main tarmac road in the village of Nigoun, near Tengrela. Behind them are lorries packed with goods and fuel tankers - Friday 31 Ocotber 2025.Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images

Geese waddle across a road in the far north of Ivory Coast on Friday. Behind them lorries are preparing to cross the border into Mali, where they will be given a military escort as for the last two months jihadists have been targeting trucks as part of a fuel blockade.

Jerome Favre / EPA / Shutterstock The supermoon rises over apartment blocks in Dakar, Senegal - Wednesday 5 November 2025.Jerome Favre / EPA / Shutterstock

And on Wednesday, the so-called Beaver supermoon rises over the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

From the BBC in Africa this week:

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