A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week:
Tunisia’s Sarra Besbes (R) takes on a Ukrainian opponent during a women’s event at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in the Russian capital, Moscow, on Wednesday. Senegalese singer Aida Mou Baye performs in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Saturday at Salam (meaning “Peace”), a religious music festival organised by musician Youssou Ndour. In the South African township of Simunye outside Johannesburg on Tuesday, a child is pictured holding a doll on Monday. On the same day, foreign nationals prepare food on a farm west of South Africa’s port city of Durban where they have taken refuge following the xenophobic violence earlier this year. Cape Town-based, Chinese-born artist Cui Ning puts the finishing touches on Thursday to a painting about the life of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, which has taken him more than five years to complete. On Tuesday, Rwandans urge MPs in the country’s parliament in the capital, Kigali, to allow the constitution to be changed so President Paul Kagame can seek a third term in office. Liberia’s chalkboard newspaper is still keeping a score of the response to Ebola, seen here on Friday. A second person has died of the virus since it made a comeback in Liberia. Dried caterpillars are on sale on Tuesday at a market in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. The nation has plans to open insect farms to help stem widespread hunger. On the same day, photographers at the Tour de France are reflected in the glasses of Eritrean cyclist Daniel Teklehaimanot, who was wearing the King of the Mountains jersey at the time. Pictured from the seafront, the Algerian capital, Algiers, is all lit up on Monday evening… On the same day, people dance at a nightclub in Algiers, which during Ramadan comes alive at night with activities for young people largely sponsored by the government, reports AFP. In the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after fasting ends on Monday evening, boys head to the Martyrs Square for some entertainment… On the same evening, one boy tests his strength at one of the funfair booths set up in the square at the heart of the Libyan capital. And on Wednesday, two days before the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan, a man uses a tablet to film a lecture at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
