Africa's week in pictures: 18


A number of the hour’s absolute best footage from around the African continent:

FAREED KOTB/GETTY IMAGES A man in brown robes stands at the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple. FAREED KOTB/GETTY IMAGES

Temple mother or father Abdel Karim greets guests who’ve come to observer the solar’s rays bright up the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt on Tuesday. The sun alignment simplest occurs two times a 12 months.

AFP Supporters of the ruling CPDM party cheer as they wait for President Paul Biya to drive past them.AFP
The year earlier than in Cameroon, supporters of the governing celebration welcome house the rustic’s 91-year-old president whose fitness has lengthy been the reason for hypothesis.
MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP Participants practice traditional basketry during the Ghadames Festival.MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP

Girls weave baskets all over a cultural competition within the Libyan town of Ghadames on Wednesday…

MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP Musicians dressed in traditional attire play during the Ghadames Festival celebrating the cultural and artistic heritage of the Libyan city.MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP

Track may be part of the celebrations…

MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP Girls dressed in traditional attire pose for a picture during the Ghadames Festival celebrating the cultural and artistic heritage of the Libyan city.MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP

And those ladies get dressed in finery for the date.

WILFRID ESTEVE/HANS LUCAS/AFP Dial-up landline telephones of various colours are mounted on a sky-blue wall.WILFRID ESTEVE/HANS LUCAS/AFP

A curious choice of telephones on a wall are a part of the guided excursion at Morocco’s Atlas Studios within the town of Ouarzazate on Monday.

BADRU KATUMBA/AFP Ugandan novice monks dressed in shades of red and brown are queuing up to receive an offering from the community after meditation celebrating Kathina, a significant event on the Buddhist calendar in Entebbe, on 20 October. Bhante Buddharakkhita, formerly known as Steven Jemba Kabogozza, brought Buddhism to Uganda 20 years ago after returning from India. Since 2005, he has been teaching mindfulness meditation across Africa. His ambitious goal is to train at least 54 monks and send each one to a different African country to teach and spread the message of Buddhism within the context of the African culture.BADRU KATUMBA/AFP

Younger Buddhist clergymen sequence as much as a obtain an providing from the nation as a part of Kathina festivities on Sunday in Entebbe, Uganda.

ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS Journalists photograph kites during a practice run at Dolphin Beach ahead of this weekend's 30th Cape Town International Kite Festival, an awareness campaign for World Mental Health Day where kite enthusiasts gather to fly colourful kites to raise funds for mental health support, in Cape Town, South Africa, October 22.ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS

It’s presen for a fast apply on Tuesday forward of the Cape The city Global Kite Pageant…

ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS Tunisia's Afef Sebti and Amelia Amira prepare their kite at Dolphin Beach ahead of this weekend's 30th Cape Town International Kite Festival, an awareness campaign for World Mental Health Day where kite enthusiasts gather to fly colourful kites to raise funds for mental health support, in Cape Town, South Africa.ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS

Those ladies have travelled from Tunisia to participate in the once a year match in South Africa, which raises cash for psychological fitness services and products.

LEGNAN KOULA/EPA Ivorian artists perform during The 2nd edition of Abidjan Border Forum (ABF), at the exhibition center in Abidjan 23 October 2024. The second edition of the Abidjan Border Forum (ABF) themed 'Green borders: between shared natural resources and security challenges' is co-organized with the African Union Commission and aims at discussing the challenges and opportunities inherent to border governance in Africa.LEGNAN KOULA/EPA

Artists carry out all over the Abidjan Border Discussion board in Ivory Coast on Wednesday.

AFP A man leads his camels along the shores of Yasmina lake, a seasonal lake in the village of Merzouga in the Sahara desert in southeastern Morocco on October 20, 2024. Last month's unusual torrential rains triggered floods that killed at least 18 people in areas of southern Morocco that straddle the Sahara Desert. Morocco is one of the world's most water-stressed nations, with frequent droughts affecting a third of the population employed in agriculture. AFP

Proof of endmost week’s floods linger in a nook of the Sahara Barren region in south-eastern Morocco on Sunday…

GUY PETERSON/AFP Teacher Suleyman Ba stands in a classroom of the Ecole de Diogel with water marks from flooding less then a week before and water still ankle deep in class rooms and waste deep in the court yard in Dioguel on October 22, 2024. Floods along the Senegal river have affected over 55,000 people after heavy rain in the Senegal River Basin leaving many villages underwater and over 1,000 hectares of farm land submerged. GUY PETERSON/AFP

This college in Senegal flooded endmost hour and the water is placid ankle-deep as of Tuesday…

OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP Residents sit in a pirogue as they move between submerged houses in the flooded area of Adankolo in Lokoja, Kogi state, Nigeria.OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP

Many Nigerians have additionally suffered weighty flood, together with those population in Kogi environment the usage of a canoe to get round the city on Monday.

BUDA MENDES/FIFA/GETTY IMAGES Players of Zambia arrives at the stadium prior to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Dominican Republic 2024 Group D match between Zambia and Japan at Felix Sanchez Stadium on October 23, 2024 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Repubic. (BUDA MENDES/FIFA/GETTY IMAGES

Zambia’s Beneath-17 ladies’s International Cup soccer workforce begin in excellent spirits forward in their fit in opposition to Japan within the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.

DARIO BELINGHERI/GETTY IMAGES Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier of Eritrea and Team Lidl - Trek, Xianjing Lyu of China and Team China and a general view of the peloton competing during the 5th Gree-Tour Of Guangxi 2024, Stage 5 a 165.8km stage from Yizhou to Nongla 641m.DARIO BELINGHERI/GETTY IMAGES

On Saturday, Eritrean bike owner Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier competes in China’s Excursion Of Guangxi.

ALFREDO ZUNIGA/AFP An image is held of Paulo Guambe (L) and advisor and lawyer Elvino Dias (R) both working with Mozambique's leading opposition candidate for the 'Obtimist party for the development of Mozambique' (PODEMOS), is held during a vigil the day after they were shot dead in Maputo October 19, 2024. The lawyer Elvino Dias for Mozambique's leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in October 9 elections, was gunned down in Maputo on October 19. Dias, was killed along with Paulo Guambe after gunmen shot up their car while it was immobile on a road in the centre of the capital, witnesses said. Mozambique is awaiting official nationwide results from the elections. They are due to be published on October 24.ALFREDO ZUNIGA/AFP

Mourners stock this picture of supremacy opposition aides Paulo Guambe and Elvino Dias who have been gunned i’m sick endmost hour following a disputed normal election…

SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS Esmerada Gonsalves, widow of murdered Podemos lawyer Elvino Dias , cries during his funeral at the Paroquia Nossa Senhora do Rosario church, in Laulane township, in Maputo.SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS

Esmerada Gonsalves, the widow of Elvino Dias, attends his funeral on Wednesday in Maputo.

LUIS TATP/AFP Nairobi County emergency responders inspect the rubble of a collapsed residential building at Kahawa West residential area in Nairobi on October 20, 2024. Response teams were responding to a building collapse in Nairobi, where people are feared trapped despite a vacation notice. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)LUIS TATP/AFP

A miserable development faint on Sunday in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, leaves two population trapped.

MURAT SENGUL/GETTY IMAGES African women who came to work and became unemployed due to the Israeli attacks are pictured in the shelter where they are placed, in Beirut, Lebanon on October 20, 2024. In Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, which is under intense Israeli attacks, African women who came to Lebanon to work and became unemployed due to the war are waiting for a helping hand to reach out to them. 172 women and 3 babies from Sierra Leone were placed in a shelter in Beirut by Lebanese volunteers.MURAT SENGUL/GETTY IMAGES
Sierra Leonean ladies and youngsters who’ve been kicked out and isolated through their Lebanese employers following Israeli assaults search safe haven in Beirut on Sunday. Their plight is shared through many African home staff who’ve long past to the rustic.
KIM LUDBROOK/EPA A runner jogs under Jacaranda trees in bloom in the Melville suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. This species is not indigenous to South Africa and was introduced from Brazil in 1829. The flowering trees are seen as the sign of the beginning of summer. KIM LUDBROOK/EPA

And on Thursday, Jacaranda bushes bloom in South Africa’s greatest town of Johannesburg.

From the BBC in Africa this hour:

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