A selection of photos from across Africa, and of Africans elsewhere, this week:
Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption Two friends sit and chat on a fishing boat on the shore of Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, on Sunday. Image copyrightEPAImage caption On Thursday, this ragged-tooth shark is on the prowl in Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium. Image copyrightReutersImage caption Lava glows inside the crater of Nyiragongo volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday. Image copyrightAFPImage caption On Monday, members of Zimbabwe’s presidential guard mark Heroes’ Day in the capital, Harare. Image copyrightGallo ImagesImage caption Zozibini Tunzi is crowned Miss South Africa 2019 in Pretoria on Friday. She has won praise from other young women in the country for choosing to wear her hair short and natural. Image copyrightAFPImage caption On Friday, US singer Jennifer Lopez sprays fake notes from money guns during her first performance in Egypt. Image copyrightAFPImage caption A painting of DJ Arafat adorns this minibus in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, on Wednesday. Two days earlier, the 33-year-old singer known for popularising coupé-décalé dance music was killed in road accident. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption On Saturday, a happy-looking tortoise is photographed on Changuu Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption This girl in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, is one of millions across the continent who took part in Eid Al-Adha prayers on Sunday. Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Muslim festival commemorates when God appeared to Ibrahim in a dream and told him to sacrifice his son but before the sacrifice goes ahead, God provides a lamb to be sacrificed instead. Image copyrightReutersImage caption As a result, people also celebrate the festival by sacrificing an animal, like these sheep seen at a livestock market in Somalia the day before. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption On Tuesday, National Women’s Day in Tunisia celebrates the gains of women’s rights legislation in recent years. Image copyrightAFPImage caption Performers open proceedings on Saturday at the Women’s AfroBasket tournament in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption And on Thursday, a man rides his bicycle between coconut palms in Abidjan.
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