A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:
Short gray presentation line
A rock cutter works in Kenya’s Kajiado North region on Saturday, earning between $2 (£1.60) and $5 an hour.
The next day in Mali there are onlookers at the Great Mosque of Djenné, which is re-plastered every year with mud…
The mosque is the largest mudbrick building in the world and known for its plasterwork and wooden scaffolding
On Friday, the first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, visits the picturesque al-Azhar Grand Mosque in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, and meets with the director of al-Azhar University, Mohamed al-Mahrasawy…
A few days later, on Sunday, she is in Morocco to talk to students studying robotics at a school in the historic city of Marrakech.
South African singer Lulama Taifasi is pictured at the Baxter Theater in Cape Town on Monday during a workshop for opera singers.
The same day, this man appears in Côte d’Ivoire, while he dresses in plastic on the occasion of World Environment Day…
From plastic dresses to plastic masks, this person covers their head with what looks like a petrol canister in Cape Town, South Africa, during an Extinction Rebellion protest calling for an end to exploration petroleum.
Also on World Environment Day, there is plastic flying in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as this man manages waste at a local recycling business.
There are masks of another type in South Africa’s main city of Johannesburg on Saturday as this person takes part in the Medieval Festival, where people wear clothes from that era.
These demonstrators flare up in Malaga, Spain on Wednesday as they demonstrate against Senegalese President Macky Sall, after opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was found guilty of “youth corruption”, which he deny.
Kenya’s capital is also being hit by a protest on Tuesday as people take to the streets against government plans to raise taxes.
