A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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On Friday, these South African women are celebrating the Ratha Yatra festival, which originates from a Hindu tradition about three gods taken out of their temples in a colourful procession to meet their devotees…
The festival, which originates from India but is also celebrated by South Africans of Indian descent, is described as the world’s largest chariot festival.
There is more religion in Ethiopia on Sunday as a choir member sings at Ethiopian New Year’s Eve celebrations in a Lutheran Church in Addis Ababa…
Meanwhile these Orthodox women are praying on the same day at the Bole Medhanialem Church on the Enkutatash public holiday which marks New Year…
There is less prayer and more partying in Addis Ababa as these people welcome the start of their 2015 with a party.
Away from Ethiopia and over in Nairobi, Kenya, local models pose on the street to raise awareness of youth mental illness, crime, drug abuse and other issues plaguing the community…
One of those models, Dennis Odhiambo from Kibera slum, strikes his pose…
Meanwhile Sebastian Thoar, who is also from Kibera, stares into the camera…
There is less decorum in the same city on Tuesday amid a stampede before the swearing-in ceremony for Kenya’s new President William Ruto. At least eight people were reportedly injured in chaotic scenes ahead of the inauguration…
But inside the stadium where the inauguration is taking place, there is a mood of celebration as Ruto supporters cheer while wearing yellow, the colour associated with his election campaign…
There are sombre scenes at the residence of Britain’s High Commissioner in Nairobi on Wednesday, as staff stand beside a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II as the new president arrives to pay his respects to her…
While in South Africa on Friday, a man looks at a painting of the Queen at Johannesburg’s Rand Club, following her death the previous day.
In Algeria on Thursday a boy empties a box of onions at an Algiers market…
In the same city on Monday a child looks at books at a back-to-school fair…
Another child, in Ivory Coast, takes her place in front of the blackboard in her classroom at the start of the school year.
In Dakar on the same day the flag flies high as a Senegalese MP poses for a picture before parliament’s first session since July’s legislative elections.
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