A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Wednesday, Sufi Muslims in Cairo prepare to perform their famous “whirling” dance, where a series of turns is said to lift them to a spiritually heightened state. [Fareed Kotb/Getty Images]
Elsewhere in Egypt’s capital city, Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadan break their fast with an enormous “iftar” street party. [Khaled Desouki/AFP]
This joyful duo are captured enjoying iftar on Friday – this time in a Somali refugee camp. [Hodan Mohamed Abdullahi/Getty Images]
Thousands of miles away at the prestigious Art Basel fair in Hong Kong, paintings by Nigerian artist Babajide Olatunji catch a visitor’s eye [Peter Parks/Getty Images]
Cameroonian singer-songwriter Irma Pany poses for a portrait of her own on Wednesday. [Joel Saget/AFP]
While a different type of artists command attention on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana. [Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP]
Colourful characters are also snapped in Nairobi, Kenya, where city-dwellers celebrate the Hindu festival, Holi. [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]
The East African nation also hosts a World Rally Championship on Wednesday, in the south-western town of Naivasha. [Massimo Bettiol/Getty Images]
South Africa play an international friendly match Algeria on Tuesday – and mark one of three goals with a sleepy celebration. [Billel Bensalem/Getty Images]
Also motionless are these unlucky fish, who wind up in a Zimbabwean trader’s net on Sunday. [KB Mpofu/Reuters]
