Africa in pictures: 1-6 February

In southern Sudan, people who fled from marauding Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels smoke while waiting in a camp in Ezo to receive aid on Wednesday.

Two days earlier, a model wears the creation of Ghanaian designer Kofi Ansah during a fashion show in Rome to launch his spring and summer collection.

Illegal migrants huddle under survival blankets on Tuesday on the Canary Island of La Gomera after making a dangerous crossing from Africa on a small open boat to reach the Spanish territory.

On Thursday, Moroccan villagers try to rescue their animals from knee-deep waters flooding the streets of Sidi Slimane following heavy rains across the country.

On the same day, a man walks past Rwandan soldiers on the march in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo�

...Nearby a Congolese boy also watches the Rwandan troops who are in the country to hunt down Rwandan Hutu rebels in a joint offensive with DR Congo's army.

On Friday, a newspaper seller in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, catches up on the latest twist in the power-struggle between the president and the city's sacked mayor Andry Rajoelina...

...A UN envoy is expected to visit the Indian Ocean island this weekend to help resolve the unrest which seen Mr Rajoelina's supporters take to the streets in protests against the president.