A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Monday, this lion cub is one of five transported from a private zoo in Ukraine to a rehabilitation centre in South Africa. Image copyright BARCROFT MEDIAA labourer walks past a wall at southern Egypt’s White Mountain limestone quarry on Saturday. Image copyrightAFP
Also on Saturday, university graduates cut a cake together during celebrations in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Image copyright AFPOn Friday, Eritrean artist Nebay Abraha works on a painting in his studio in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Image copyrightAFP
Also on Friday, shocked Nairobi residents look at the debris of a six-storey building that collapsed in the early hours of the morning, killing at least 10 people. Image copyright AFPHeavy rain obscures a window in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday. Image copyright EPASouth Africa’s Zozibini Tunzi is crowned Miss Universe at the pageant in Atlanta, US. “I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me was never considered to be beautiful,” she said. Image copyright GETTY IMAGES
Bird Man, the artwork of Senegalese artist Soly Cissé, looms over the Banco National Park in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Sunday. The exhibit is part of the first Green Arts Biennale. Image copyright AFPHorsemen dash through Addis Ababa to greet Ethiopia’s President Abiy Ahmed on Thursday, as the Nobel Prize winner returns from a special ceremony in Norway. Image copyright AFPAnd the sun sets over Praslin Island in the Seychelles on Friday. Image copyright GETTY IMAGES
Pictures from Getty Images, EPA, Barcroft Media, AFP and Reuters.
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And the sun sets over Praslin Island in the Seychelles on Friday. Image copyright GETTY IMAGES