Africa’s top shots: 29 September-5 October 2017
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Maitre Gims (L), a rapper born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, poses next to a wax sculpture of himself as its unveiling at the Musee Grevin wax museum in France’s capital, Paris, on Monday. Image copyright AFP Image caption Moroccan military planes release trails of white smoke in Casablanca to mark the 60th anniversary of the national airline Royal Air Maroc on Saturday… Image copyright AFP Image caption Moroccan military paragliders also took part in the display watched by crowds on the seafront. Image copyright EPA Image caption The next day, creative tailoring is on display at the ruling Frelimo party congress in Mozambique. The material is emblazoned with the face of Filipe Nyusi, Mozambique’s president and Frelimo leader. Image copyright AFP Image caption On the same day, Angolan model Maria Borges takes part in a fashion show on a catwalk set up on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Image copyright AFP Image caption Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda kisses the award for her role in the film Volubilis at a film festival in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of El-Gouna on Friday. Image copyright Reuters Image caption A couple sprinkle themselves with water on Sunday during celebrations for Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people in the Ethiopian town of Bishoftu… Image copyright AFP Image caption The annual event marks the end of the rainy season. Last year, a deadly stampede at the festival sparked anti-government unrest. Image copyright Reuters Image caption The next day, a Kenyan opposition protester, demanding the sacking of electoral officials ahead of the re-run of the presidential poll, throws stones at riot policemen in Kisumu. Image copyright AFP Image caption In the Kibera slum in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday, a resident takes a selfie along a railway track. Image copyright Reuters Image caption People help themselves to beer from a truck that crashed on a motorway outside South Africa’s city of Johannesburg on Friday. Image copyright EPA Image caption Four days later, canoeists train in the early morning fog on the Emmarencia Dam in central Johannesburg. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Migrants on a wooden boat await rescue from a German vessel some 50 nautical miles (90 nautical kilometres) north of the Tunisian-Libyan land border on Saturday. Image copyright Reuters Image caption And competitors search for checkmate during the Sudan National Chess Championship in preparation for the Olympics in the capital, Khartoum, on Friday.
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