A choice of the day’s best possible pictures from around the African continent and past:

John Wessels / AFP Two women stand near trees. Their clothes are visually striking and their facial expressions are calm. In Dakar, Senegal - Saturday 7 December 2024John Wessels / AFP

Fashions decorated in cowrie shells and batik attire seem on the ultimate life of Dakar Type Year within the Senegalese capital…

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images A model walks down the catwalk in a tailored linen two-piece suit. The colour is mustard and there are four rectangular panels stitched to the jacket, in magenta, orange and blue. In Dakar, Senegal - Saturday 7 December 2024Cem Ozdel / Getty Photographs

Saturday additionally sees creations by way of French-Senegalese dressmaker Adama N’Diaye modelled…

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images A woman wears a large turquoise pair of pom-pom earrings and a satin dress of a similar shade. Her lipstick is a deep berry colour. In Dakar, Senegal - Saturday 7 December 2024Cem Ozdel / Getty Photographs

Her assortment options placing colors and affluent prosperous textures.

Emmanuel Adegboye / EPA Women stand close together in a queue. They are only visible from the waist down. They wear knee-length skirts and straight-leg trousers. In Lagos, Nigeria - Saturday 7 December 2024
Emmanuel Adegboye / EPA

At the similar life in Lagos, fashions dressed in the affluent prosperous tones and patterns of dressmaker Iffizi get in a position for the catwalk at Africa Type Year Nigeria.

Sharon Seretlo / Getty Images Two women smile and throw peace signs. One sticks her tongue out as she poses for the camera. Behind them is an outdoor stage in Kroonpark Resort - Saturday 7 December 2024Sharon Seretlo / Getty Photographs

Additionally on Saturday, song fans prove for a excellent motive because the Uhuru Aids Get advantages Live performance involves Kroonstad in South Africa.

Luis Tato / AFP Three dancers dressed in red carry a large, red dragon puppet at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi  - Saturday 7 December 2024Luis Tato / AFP

In the meantime in Nairobi that life, ballerinas wait behind the curtain all through a efficiency of The Nutcraker by way of the Dance Centre Kenya corporate.

Chris Unger / Getty Images A muscled man with the outline of the African continent daubed on his torso in green holds up the Zimbabwe national flag above his head in Las Vegas, the US - Friday 6 December 2024Chris Unger / Getty Photographs

On Friday in the United States, Zimbabwean UFC fighter Themba Gorimbo proudly presentations his African roots at a weigh-in in Las Vegas.

Roberta Ciuccio / AFP Two muscular women in bikinis - one in high heels stretches up on her arms arms backstage at the Kempton Park Civic Centre in Ekurhuleni - Saturday 7 December 2024Roberta Ciuccio / AFP

And the then life in South Africa, contestants heat up forward of the IFBB Vintage Condition and Bodybuilding Display.

Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP Topless men painted in black body paint crouch together. Their expressions are stern and some carry ceremonial weapons in Foumban, Cameroon - Sunday 8 December 2024Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP

There’s any other show of bodily would possibly, this generation in Cameroon on Sunday all through the Nguon competition. The development is alleged to era again to the 14th Century and it used to be extreme future recognised by way of Unesco an illustration of “intangible heritage”.

Gerald Anderson / Getty Images Girls in matching multicoloured dressed sit in a row on the ground with with arms outstretched and smiling - Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday 7 December 2024Gerald Anderson / Getty Photographs

Saturday sees performers collaborating in Kenya’s Kibera Arts Competition, which caters to the family on this neighbourhood of Nairobi.

Monicah Mwangi / Reuters Protesters shout - one with their hands up in the air - next to a red poster showing a woman crying, Nairobi, Kenya - Tuesday 10 December 2024Monicah Mwangi / Reuters

In Kenya’s capital on Tuesday, outraged electorate protest in opposition to endemic violence in opposition to girls beneath the banner Finish Femicide Kenya. Rights teams says similar to 100 girls were killed within the extreme 3 months isolated…

John Muchucha / Reuters Executive director of Amnesty is grabbed and detained by plainclothes policemen and bundled into a vehicle in Nairobi, Kenya - Tuesday 10 December 2024John Muchucha / Reuters
Francis Kokoroko / Reuters A close-up of a T-shirt worn by a supporter of Ghana’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Accra with a photo of John Mahama over which is a large gold necklace - Monday 9 December 2024Francis Kokoroko / Reuters

Because the legit effects from Ghana’s presidential election roll in on Monday, supporters of John Mahama proclaim his re-election nearest virtually 8 years in opposition.

Denis Sassou Gueipeur / AFP People stamp on a French national flag. Only their legs and feet are visible. On a street in N'Djamen, Chad - Friday 6 December 2024Denis Sassou Gueipeur / AFP

Days previous, as information spreads about French troops being expelled from Chad, anti-French demonstrators in N’Djamena build their emotions unclouded by way of trampling at the Tricolore.

Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images A close-up of Thuso Mbedu with white and black braids smiling at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood - Monday 9 December 2024 Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Photographs

South African actress Thuso Mbedu smiles at the United States premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King on Monday. She voices the nature of Junia.

Jalal Morchidi / EPA Abderrahmane Sissako wearing tinted glasses and a boubou points at the camera in a jocular way in Marrakesh - Saturday 7 December 2024Jalal Morchidi / EPA

Acclaimed Mauritanian movie director Abderrahmane Sissako makes some extent on the utmost rite of Morocco’s Marrakesh Global Movie Competition on Saturday.

Riccardo De Luca / AFP Ignace Bessi Dogbo (R) bows his head as he receives his red biretta from Pope Francis (L) in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican - Saturday 7 December 2024Riccardo De Luca / AFP

On Saturday, Ivorian cleric and Archbishop of Abidjan Ignace Bessi Dogbo is officially made a cardinal within the Vatican.

Legnan Koula / EPA Women stand by the sea and sieve cassava grains into large pots. Abidjan's skyline can be seen in the background - Thursday 11 December 2024Legnan Koula / EPA
Esa Alexander / Reuters A Yorkshire terrier licks its lips as it looks out a car window. Neon Christmas light are visible in the distance on a street in Cape Town, South Africa - Tuesday 10 December 2024Esa Alexander / Reuters

And on Monday within the South African town of Cape The town, a tiny canine licks its chops month automobiles wait in site visitors to peer the Christmas lighting.

From the BBC in Africa this day:

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