Meghan mania and big skirts: Africa's top shots

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

A big fish and fisherman on Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia - Monday 13 May 2024
[Feisal Omar/Reuters]

A fisherman walks towards his catch on a beach in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Monday.

Jockeys taking part in the Cameroon International Grand Prix in Maroua, Cameroon - Saturday 11 May 2024
[Daniel Beloumou Olomo/AFP ]

Jockeys take part in a major horse race on Saturday in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua...

Children climb a goal post ahead of the Cameroon International Grand Prix in Maroua, Cameroon - Saturday 11 May 2024
[Daniel Beloumou Olomo/AFP]

Known as the Cameroon International Grand Prix, it attracts riders from across the region, and large crowds.

A boy eating a mango in the middle of seated camels in N'Djamena, Chad - Sunday 12 May 2024
[Issouf SANOGO/AFP]

The next day, a boy hanging out with camels in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, munches on a mango.

An apricot picker in Qalyubia province, Egypt - Monday 13 May 2024
[Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]

It is apricot-harvesting season in Egypt’s Qalyubia province, where a picker is pictured on Monday.

Women taken selfies with the Duchess of Sussex in Abuja, Nigeria - Saturday 11 May 2024
[Emmanuel Osodi/Getty Images]

Fans of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, take selfies with her on Saturday as she and her husband Prince Harry attend a sitting volleyball match in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja…

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at a basketball event in Lagos, Nigeria - Sunday 12 May 2024
[Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters]

The royal couple were in the West African nation as part of the Invictus Games anniversary celebrations. On Sunday, they are at a basketball event in Lagos.

Basketball players from Rivers Hoopers and Tunisia's US Monastir participate in a game in Dakar, Senegal - Sunday 12 May 2024
[Cem Ozdel/Getty Images]

On the same day, players from Nigerian basketball club Rivers Hoopers take on Tunisia's US Monastir in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, as part of the Basketball Africa League's Sahara Conference…

The presidents of Rwanda, Paul Kagame (L), and Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye (R), watch a basket ball match in Dakar, Senegal - Sunday 12 May 2024
[Cem Ozdel/Getty Images]

The presidents of Rwanda, Paul Kagame (L), and Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye (R), watch a game at the same event where Senegal’s AS Douanes beat Rwanda's APR 79-54.

Aya Asaqas of Morocco competes during the Women's Park Prelims Heat 1 on day one of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, China - Thursday 16 May 2024
[Fred Lee/Getty Images]

Moroccan skateboarder Aya Asaqas competes in an Olympic qualifying event in the Chinese city of Shanghai on Thursday.

People visit an international book fair in Rabat, Morocco - Saturday 11 May 2024
[Jalal Morchidi/EPA]

On Saturday, a family becomes engrossed in a story on a visit to an international book fair in Morocco’s capital, Rabat...

Schoolchildren cling to the back of a truck delivering gas cylinders in Tangier, Morocco - Saturday 11 May 2024
[Wilfrid Esteve/AFP]

On the same day in the Moroccan city of Tangier, schoolchildren hitch a ride on the back of a truck.

Wednesday 15 May 2024
[AFP]

A boy gets a haircut on Wednesday in a camp in Gedaref in eastern Sudan set up for people forced to flee their homes because of the civil war that broke out in April 2023.

Children in school uniform walk along a train line in Nairobi, Kenya - Monday 13 May 2024
[Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images]

On Monday, pupils in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, head back to school - two weeks later than planned because of massive flooding that affected much of the country...

Tuesday 14 May 2024
[Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]

The next day, a boy looks on at a search-and-rescue operation near the Mathare River in Nairobi after a residential building marked for demolition collapsed.

Tabitha Chawingar heads a ball for Paris St-Germain during a match against Paris FC - Monday 13 May 2024
[Franck Fife/AFP]

Tabitha Chawingar heads a ball for Paris St-Germain during a match against Paris FC on Saturday. Two days later, the Malawian forward won the Best Hope Women Player trophy at a French footballers' union ceremony in Paris.

Rungano Nyoni (L) and actress Susan Chardy (R) pose for the cameras in Cannes, France -Thursday 16 May 2024
[Loic Venance/AFP]

In the French city of Cannes on Thursday, Zambian-British director Rungano Nyoni (L) and actress Susan Chardy (R) pose during a photocall for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, a film about dark family secrets set in Zambia.

MK members salute outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa - Friday 10 May 2024
[Tebogo Letsie/Getty Images]

Members of South Africa’s new MK party salute in Johannesburg on Friday outside the Constitutional Court as it begins hearing a challenge to a decision to allow their leader, ex-President Jacob Zuma, to contest in the election...

ANC supporters waving in Pretoria, South Africa -Friday 10 May 2024
[Kim Ludbrook/EPA]

On the same day, supporters of the governing ANC, decked in Winnie Mandela T-shirts, wait to greet President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in Pretoria ahead of the 29 May poll.

People watch whirling dancers in Ismailia, Egypt - Monday 13 May 2024
[Mohamed Elshahed/Getty Images]

And the traditional Tanoura folk dance is performed during events on Monday to mark an annual spring festival in Egypt’s north-eastern city of Ismailia.

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