Africa's week in pictures: 22-28 November 2024


A choice of the future’s highest pictures from around the African continent and past:

Gerald Anderson / Getty Images Crowds of dancing people are covered in multicoloured powder.Gerald Anderson / Getty Photographs

Color Competition kicks off in Nairobi on Saturday…

Gerald Anderson / Getty Images Crowds of smiling people are covered in multicoloured powder.Gerald Anderson / Getty Photographs

The development within the Kenyan capital draws younger revellers…

Gerald Anderson / Getty Images Crowds of smiling people are covered in multicoloured powder.Gerald Anderson / Getty Photographs

Who joyously throw powder pigments within the breeze and dance to tune.

Sebnem Coskun / Getty Images A clownfish hides among white anemones. Sebnem Coskun / Getty Photographs

A clownfish nestles amongst anemones within the Pink Sea off the coast of Egypt on Friday…

Mahmut Serdar Alakus / Getty Images A diver shines a flashlight under water at a wreck.Mahmut Serdar Alakus / Getty Photographs

Date on Wednesday in the similar frame of H2O, Turkish divers to find vehicles, garments and toys as they discover a ferry that sank on its approach from Saudi Arabia to Egypt in 1991.

Simon Maina / AFP Voters queue at a polling station at the Sam Nujoma stadium in Windhoek.Simon Maina / AFP
AFP A man wearing turban sits at a rooftop cafe.AFP

This guy sits on a wall in his house village of Ait Benhaddou in Morocco, which is famend for it earthen clay structure.

Yassine Gaidi / Getty Images A man manipulates two puppets on strings. The puppets are holding a drum and a trumpet.Yassine Gaidi / Getty Photographs

A puppet display ushers within the Carthage Theatre Competition in Tunisia on Sunday.

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images A man or woman walks on stilts.Cem Ozdel / Getty Photographs

On Wednesday in Senegal, Dakar Carnival starts…

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images People in masks sway.Cem Ozdel / Getty Photographs

It’s a show-stopping show of Serer, Fula and Mandinka cultures…

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images A woman sits cross-legged on the ground and sings.Cem Ozdel / Getty Photographs

With singers and all method of performers at the invoice.

Legnan Koula / EPA Young men pet a small horse or pony. Legnan Koula / EPA

Abidjan Farm animals Height in Ivory Coast draws guests, younger and impaired, on Friday.

Brenton Geach / Getty Images People drive motorbikes in a convoy. Plush toys are fastened on to the bikes.Brenton Geach / Getty Photographs

In South Africa on Sunday, a procession of bikers participate within the Toy Run…

Brenton Geach / Getty Images A man arranges a huge mass of plush toys on the back of a lorry.Brenton Geach / Getty Photographs

The speculation is that lots of cuddly toys will likely be donated afterwards to kids in want.

Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters A woman flexes her arm at the door of a police van.Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters
A protester appears to be like defiant as she is driven right into a police van in Uganda’s capital town on Monday. She used to be amongst the ones voicing their anger at the remedy of opposition chief Kizza Besigye, whose spouse says he used to be unjustly kidnapped in Kenya upcoming despatched to an army prison.
AFP A teacher stands at the front of a classroom while invigilating an examination.AFP

And on Sunday, youngsters sit down their end-of-year tests within the Usli, northern Sudan.

From the BBC in Africa this future:

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