A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Tuesday members of the Tigray circus rehearse in the Ethiopian city of Mekeele…
… the circus provides training for disadvantaged young people.
On Friday former Congolese wrestler Maitre Satonge pays tribute to his former colleague and friend, Alphonse Mwimba Makiease, a champion of albino rights, who died after a year-long illness.
Activists from the South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters protest outside the shop Clicks in Polokwane on Monday over a shampoo advert which described black hair as dull and white hair as normal.
On Wednesday a school acts as a polling station for the Tigray regional parliamentary election in northern Ethiopia…
… Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government postponed all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic and has deemed this election illegal…
… the election represents the latest challege to Mr Abiy’s authority.
On Tuesday people in Sudan’s capital Khartoum continue to struggle with floods…
… countrywide, floods have killed nearly 100 people and made thousands homeless.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, floods also hit Senegal’s capital Dakar.
On Monday this scene is captured in the alleyways of the Kibera neighbourhood of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
On Tuesday protesters in London demand reparations for those affected by oil spills in the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
