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

EPA A man with blue, red and white face paint smiles broadly at Cape Town's Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival - Saturday 4 January 2025EPA

Revellers flooding Cape The city’s streets on Saturday for Tweede Nuwe Jaar (2d Unused Moment), a colourful annual pageant rooted within the South African town’s slave historical past…

EPA A group of five people wearing white and green suits participate in the Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival - Saturday 4 January 2025EPA

Dressed as minstrels, family strum banjos and sing songs relationship again to the 1800s…

Esa Alexander / Reuters A man wearing a white, red, and blue costume with an elaborate headgear poses in a split position with his tongue sticking out at the Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival - Saturday 4 January 2025Esa Alexander / Reuters

…daring dance strikes are an remarkable a part of the festivities as neatly.

Nipah Dennis / AFP Ghana's new President John Mahama holds the state sword at his inauguration in the capital Accra - Tuesday 7 January 2025.Nipah Dennis / AFP

On Tuesday, John Mahama wields the condition sword following his settingup as Ghana’s pristine president within the capital, Accra.

Khaled Desouki / AFP Multiple hot air balloons ascend into the sky in Egypt's southern city of Luxor - Thursday 9 January 2025.Khaled Desouki / AFP

Early Thursday morning, vacationers in Egypt board scorching breeze balloons within the southern town of Luxor.

Khaled Desouki / AFP A picture shows a newly-unearthed carved relief during a media event to announce new discoveries by an Egyptian archaeological mission at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor - Wednesday 8 January 2025. Khaled Desouki / AFP

The month prior to, in the similar town, newly unearthed archaeological discoveries at Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple walk on show…

Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images A picture shows a newly-unearthed stone blocks during a media event to announce new discoveries by an Egyptian archaeological mission at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor - Wednesday 8 January 2025. Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Pictures

Over 1,000 adorned stone blocks have been came upon.

Tony Karumba / AFP A Kenyan man is held by police officers in a vehicle for demanding the release of government critics abducted in the country - Monday 6 January 2025Tony Karumba / AFP

A Kenyan guy is detained by way of police all over an illustration on Monday within the capital, Nairobi, challenging the drop of presidency critics kidnapped within the nation.

Marco Longari / AFP A man, standing, drizzles gin over a young person sitting on the floor, who is covered in red palm oil mixed with maize flour, giving it a golden hue at a ceremony at the at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, Ouidah - Thursday 9 January 2025.Marco Longari / AFP

In Benin, a Kokou begin – a devotee of the warrior god in conventional faith – is roofed in crimson palm oil blended with maize flour, presen gin is drizzled over their head all over a rite at the once a year Vodun pageant in Ouidah…

Marco Longari / AFP A person wearing a richly textured outfit for the at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, Ouidah represents the visible manifestation of the spirit of departed ancestors - Thursday 9 January 2025.Marco Longari / AFP

An Egungun, a optical manifestation of the spirit of departed ancestors, visits the public all over the pageant which celebrates the rustic’s Vodun heritage.

From the BBC in Africa this while:

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