A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Saturday a game of football on the beach in Benghazi, Libya, turned into an acrobatics demonstration.
On Sunday South Africa’s Ruswahl Saaai wins the men’s long jump competition at the Diamond League Athletics Meeting at Stockholm.
On Friday wedding guests mingle between the corn fields in Egypt’s Menoufia province.
On Wednesday resident’s in Sudan’s second city Omdurman struggled through a flood…
… some say they are the words floods Sudan has seen in more than 70 years.
On Saturday a plane crashes shortly after take off in South Sudan’s capital Juba, killing the four South Sudanese passengers and the three Russian crew members.
On Tuesday South Africa’s “red ants” evict people illegally occupying apartment buildings in Rooderpoort, near Johannesburg…
… also all in red, security officers wait for the Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine in the capital Kampala on Friday…
… the popstar-turned-politician, centre, arrives at the headquarters of the National Unity Platform to be made its president.
On Saturday Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan, second from the left, arrives in Mali’s capital Bamako as a mediator after the military took over in a coup…
…A day before, on Friday, huge crowds gather to support the Malian soldiers.
On Thursday, protesters hit the streets near Johannesburg in South Africa after a 16-year-old boy is reported dead.
