A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent.
On Saturday, Nigeria’s Israel Adesanya aims high in his UFC light heavyweight championship fight against Poland’s Jan Blachowicz in Las Vegas.
On the same day over in Tunisia’s capital Tunis restarateur Ahmed Hergal makes a pizza topped with edible gold leaf for an eye-watering $360 (£276).
On Wednesday, a student protester stops traffic in Johannesburg, South Africa…
Police use rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas against the protesters and one passer-by is killed…
The protesters are demanding a change in financial aid after students whose fees were in arrears were refused entry into the next academic year.
Algerians clash with police in the capital, Algiers, on Monday. Protesters in the long-running Hirak movement are demanding everyone from the old ruling elite step down from power.
On the same day in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, the armed forces put on a show of strength after several opposition protests…
Supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko are angered that he has been charged with rape – a charge they say is trumped up to stop him from running for president…
During the protests people targeted French-owned businesses, including this Auchan supermarket in Dakar pictured on Saturday.
International Women’s Day is celebrated by community organisations in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Monday.
A man looks on as another tries to unblock a gutter on Friday in the Moroccan town of Fnideq after stormy weather.
And on Wednesday a hawker in the Nigerian city of Lagos tries to sell hats to protesters opposing calls to reduce the country’s minimum wage set at ($65; £45) a month.
