Flower girls prepare to enter a wedding reception in Liberia's
capital, Monrovia, on Saturday as life slowly returns to normal in some
Ebola-hit areas of the country. The bride and groom had waited until the
worst of the epidemic had passed before scheduling their wedding as
public gatherings and physical touching have been discouraged to stem
the spread of the virus.
On the same day, hundreds of revellers dance the night away on a
football field near Botswana's capital, Gaborone. Many young people say
they cannot afford going to nightclubs since an alcohol levy was
introduced in 2008. One of the performers was DJ Gouveia, whose popular
track Ambuye recently featured on the
BBC's Best Nightclub in Africa series.
On Tuesday, a man pulls a transport platform made of metal
barrels carrying a UN vehicle across a section of Lake Chad to a refugee
camp at N'Gouboua…
About 14,000 Nigerians have fled over into Chad to escape
recent attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram, according to the UN
refugee agency.
The next day, riot police in Nigeria practise crowd control
techniques in the capital, Abuja, ahead of general elections next month.
Parliamentary elections were held on the Indian Ocean
archipelago of the Comoros on Sunday. Former President Abdallah Sambi
wraps up his party's campaign on Friday with a rally staged after Muslim
prayers in the capital, Moroni.
Floods in Mozambique are affecting about 124,000 people and
have led to the deaths of close to 80 people. Here people on Monday are
stranded on either side of a bridge over the Licungo River.
There is always time for shopping - even when you are one of
the world's busiest women. Here International Monetary Fund chief
Christine Lagarde walks through a fabric shop in a market in Rwanda's
capital, Kigali, on Wednesday.
A park ranger stands next to a female northern white rhino at
the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, some 290km (180 miles) north of the Kenyan
capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday. She is one of five members of the rhino
sub-species left on the planet. This week conservationists and
scientists have been meeting there to discuss plans to save them
extinction.
Dancers in Somaliland welcome actors from London's Globe
theatre to Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared republic, on
Thursday....
They were there to perform Shakespeare's Hamlet. The cast have
been performing on stages around the world to mark the 450th anniversary
of the English playwright's birth.
It has been an exciting week for football fans - like this
supporter from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday - whose teams
have made it through to the quarter finals of the Africa Cup of Nations
in Equatorial Guinea....
But it was a bitter disappointment for Mali's supporters whose
fate was decided in a drawing of lots on Thursday because they finished
level in Group D with Guinea. It is the first time lots have decided a
team's qualification in the tournament since 1988...
This weekend will see the quarter finals played in Bata - where
this family plays with a football on a beach on Friday - and the
capital, Malabo.
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