A choice of the week’s finest images from throughout the African continent:
On Saturday, this boy delves into the Nile River to leave the sweltering heatwave sweeping throughout Egypt.
Members of the Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) practice on the phase before the opening night of the musical “Felines” in Nairobi on Friday.
It’s a fight of brawn as 2 guys battle in the Senegalese cultural phenomenon referred to as “laamb” in the Wolof language in Dakar on Sunday.
In Kenya, swords not fists are utilized as members of the Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club fence in the streets of Mathare, a casual settlement of Nairobi, as part of an effort to provide hope in a location filled with criminal offense and absence of chance.
A misty Wednesday sees angler haul in sardines captured in the seaside resort town Scottburgh in South Africa…
And the haul is abundant.
Enjoyment sweeps through Langata Women Optimum Security Jail in Nairobi, as the prisoners doll up to compete for the crown in the yearly Miss Langata Jail appeal program on Friday.
On the exact same day, at the Kolfe Cops Training Camp on the borders of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, prohibited weapons recuperated throughout different security operations are splashed in fuel and scorched.
An animal due to be offered and butchered keeps an eye out from its cage in a busy market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday ahead of the Muslim celebration Eid al-Adha.
A Somali male delves into the Indian Ocean at a beach in the capital, Mogadishu, to sign up with a group of revellers on Friday.
Winter season has actually gotten here in the Southern Hemisphere, and 2 guys brave a wintry Wednesday early morning to go on a walk, as temperature levels drop in the South African city of Johannesburg.
From the BBC in Africa today:
Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica