Africa's week in pictures: 12-18 April 2024

BBC
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

A woman wearing goggles looks at the camera underwater.
Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses on Tuesday as she prepares for the 2024 Olympics. [MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP]
A skateboarder performs a trick at a skate park.
Kenyan skateboarders take part in the Amps & Ramps contest in Nairobi on Saturday. [PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP]
A woman and young boy hold hands and dance.
On the same day, people of African descent take part in the Congo dance at a festival in the Central American nation of Panama. [BIENVENIDO VELASCO/EPA]
Women chant and dance during the celebration for the Shuwalid festival in Harar. Shuwalid is an annual festival celebrated by the Harari people of Ethiopia and marks the end of six days of fasting to compensate omissions during Ramadan.
On Tuesday, Ethiopians in the ancient city of Harar celebrate the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year. [MICHELE SPATARI/AFP]
A picture of late US musician Michael Jackson is painted on the back of a bus in Yopougon, a district of Abidjan.
The King of Pop graces this bus in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Friday. Michael Jackson was also crowned the king of a village during a visit to the country in 1992. [LEGNAN KOULA/EPA]
Burkina Faso's Fientan group composed of deaf and mute people performs contemporary dance during the 13th edition of the African Entertainment Arts Market (MASA) at the Palais de la Culture in Abidjan.
Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso's Fientan group take to the stage at the African Entertainment Arts Market in Ivory Coast on Wednesday... [ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP]
The Danseincolor troupe from Congo Brazzaville performs during the 13th edition of the African Entertainment Arts Market (MASA) at the Palais de la Culture in Abidjan.
Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville. [ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP]
Men dunk animal skins into tannery pits.
Craftsmen dye animal skins at this tannery in Fez, northern Morocco, on Wednesday. [NURETTIN BOYDAK/GETTY IMAGES]
Surfers stand on Surfers stand on Muizenberg beach in the early morning as seasonal mist shrouds the sun in Cape Town.
South African surfers are shrouded in morning mists on Muizenberg beach on Thursday. [ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS]
A Sudanese man has his hair cut in front of a mirror.
In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago. [MOHAMED HOSSAM/EPA]
A view of the Fadiouth Island, also known as shell island.
Days earlier, handmade items hang next to a wall on Senegal's famous clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island. [CEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGES]
Members of the royal family and a guardian of the throne surround the throne of Mouhammad-Nabil Mfonrifoum Mbombo Njoya (unseen), Sultan King of the Bamouns, ahead of the inauguration ceremony of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in Foumban.
On Saturday in Cameroon, royals and a guardian surround the Bamoun throne... [DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP]
A Bamoun warrior responsible of the security of the Sultan King of the Bamouns shoots into the air during the start of the inauguration ceremony of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in Foumban.
And ceremonial gunfire kicks off the official opening of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in the city of Foumban. [DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP]

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