Saturday, 6 February 2016

A selection of photos from around the African continent this week





A supporter holds a scarf of

On Monday, supporters of the Egyptian side Al-Ahly remember the 74 fans who died at a match against Al-Masry four years ago

Johnstone Mainah does some daily workout routine with homemade weights in Kibera slum in Kenya

On Tuesday Kenyan Johnstone Mainah shows off his homemade weights at a bodybuilding session in Nairobi's Kibera district

Titus Alukwe, Ben Oloo and Johnstone Mainah do some daily workout routine with homemade weights in Kibera slum in Kenya

...he is joined by Titus Alukwe and Ben Oloo for his daily workout

A young boy reacts as a health worker administers a measles vaccine in Lagos

On Friday, health workers are in Lagos are vaccinating children against measles in a campaign backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Nigeria's Dangote Foundation

Equatorial Guinea

Present heads of state file past portraits of Africa's past leaders at the African Union headquarters as they get ready for a group photo on Saturday

Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta (L), with Ghana's president John Dramani Mahama (C) and Mauritius' president Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

...it is a chance for the heads of state to take in their surroundings.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks during a plenary assembly at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg

After attending the heads of state meeting in Addis Ababa, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari travelled on to Europe and on Wednesday speaks to the European parliament in France

Cooks prepare fish during the attieke and fish festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

On Saturday, cooks in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, are preparing food for a festival which celebrates fish and the Ivorian dish of attieke, made from fermented cassava

Maha Khaled Eissa of Egypt competes in the Girls A 1m springboard during the Senet Diving Cup

Egypt's Maha Khaled Eissa takes part in a diving competition in the Netherlands on Thursday

Men play billiards in a billiard hall in Benghazi, Libya January 30, 2016

Libyan men relax on Saturday by playing a few frames of snooker at a club in Benghazi

Sharon from Uganda checks her reveler's outfit during a carnival lecture for beginners, held by Caritas with the aim to bring Cologne lifestyle and carnival basics closer to refugees in Cologne

There is hope that regular league football will return to Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, once the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, and on Tuesday players from El-Kanemi Warriors FC were out training

Aerial view of the solar plant of Ouarzazate, central Morocco, Thursday, Feb.4, 2016

Morocco opens the first phase of its solar plant on Thursday, set to become the largest in the world when it is completed

A woman from Thonyor, South Sudan, uses a satellite phone provided by ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) on February 3, 2016 to call her lost relatives

On Wednesday, a woman from Thonyor, South Sudan, who fled the village when it came under attack last October, uses a phone supplied by the Red Cross to try and locate her lost relatives



With BBC