A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP Miss Universe Kenya contestants prepare backstage in Nairobi on Friday…<!-- --> PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP They are cheered on enthusiastically by the audience.<!-- --> WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ / GETTY IMAGES On the same day, models showcase clothes from Nigerian-born fashion designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal at the V&A museum in the UK.<!-- --> CARLOS SANTIAGO / GETTY IMAGES Malian basketballer Maimouna Haidara sports multi-coloured hair at a match against Venezuela in Mexico. The West Africans went on to win 88-66.<!-- --> DOAA ADEL / GETTY IMAGES A man crafts decorative Khayamiya textiles at a covered market in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday.<!-- --> FOUR PAWS / EPA Forty-two-year-old retired circus elephant, Charlie, is transferred to a game reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Wednesday.<!-- --> MONICAH MWANGI / REUTERS A customer thanks a robot for serving her food at the Robot Cafe in Nairobi on Thursday.<!-- --> JEFF BOTARI / GETTY IMAGES Dricus Du Plessis of South Africa and Israel Adesanya of Nigeria embrace after slugging it out at their UFC middleweight championship fight on Sunday, won by Du Plessis.<!-- --> WILFRIED MBINAH / AFP People wave flags in Gabon’s capital, Libreville, during Saturday’s Independence Day parade.<!-- --> YASSINE GAIDI / GETTY IMAGES Christians carry an effigy of the Virgin Mary during the Madonna of Trapani festival on Friday in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis.<!-- --> GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP Fans in Goma get hyped up before a Fally Ipupa concert on Friday. The Congolese singer ended up cancelling a string of his shows – refunds were promised but many ticket-buyers complain they have not got their money back yet. <!-- --> SIMON MAINA / AFP Kenyan rap duo Wadagliz pose for the camera during an interview in Nairobi. Their hit song Anguka Nayo – meaning “Roll With It” – has become a soundtrack to recent youth-led anti-government rallies.<!-- --> OUPA BOPAPE / GETTY IMAGES In Johannesburg on Saturday, South African actress Abigail Kubeka is honoured at an event marking her 67-year career and contribution to the arts.<!-- --> CHANCELIN MBAIRAMADJI MOITA/EPA People in the flooded capital of Chad, N’Djamena, use a boat to get around on Wednesday. More than 16,000 homes have been damaged and destroyed since mid-July. <!-- --> TCHANDROU NITANGA / AFP Burundian journalist and government critic Floriane Irangabiye thanks her legal team who had pleaded with the president to free her from prison, which he finally did on Friday, granting her an official pardon.<!-- --> ARLETTE BASHIZI / REUTERS On Sunday, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Justine Munguiko holds her child who has been cured of mpox. This virus is “not the new Covid” because authorities clearly know how to control its spread, a leading World Health Organization expert has said.<!-- --> IOM / REUTERS On Wednesday, food aid is finally permitted to enter Sudan’s Darfur region for the first time in six months. The breakthrough came following international pressure to avert full-scale famine. More than half of the national population need assistance, the UN estimates.<!-- --> AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP Malawi’s main opposition DPP gathers on Sunday for a party conference where ex-President Peter Mutharika was formally chosen to stand in next year’s presidential election.<!-- --> JIHED ABIDELLAOUI / REUTERS Fisheries engineer Ramla Bouhlel handles a Posidonia plant in Tunisia’s coastal city of Monastir on Friday. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WFF), this type of seagrass “creates essential living habitats for thousands of marine species”.<!-- --> ESA ALEXANDER / REUTERS And on Monday evening a supermoon, also known as the Blue Moon, rises over Cape Town in South Africa.<!-- --> From the BBC in Africa this week: Getty Images/BBC Source link Post navigation The Reverend fighting to bring abortion out of the darkness In Vietnam digital systems are helping farmers