A selection of photos from around Africa this week:
A man dresses up for a Workers' Day in rally in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Friday...
On Sunday, a supporter of Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe looks on as poll results are announced in the capital, Lome. Mr Gnassingbe won a third term in elections rejected by the opposition as fraudulent.
On the same day, US Secretary of State John Kerry was taking a selfie with a baby elephant at a game park in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
A work by Kenyan artist Wangeti Mutu called The End of Carrying All is seen on display on Tuesday at an exhibition in the Italy's Venice city.
In South Africa's Cape Town city on Friday, party-goers celebrate at Holi One, a festival which promotes togetherness in everyday life...
Five days later, seagulls take off at dawn from a harbour wall in Cape Town. The scavengers wait for scraps of food from fishing boats or restaurants.
Young boys jump from one concrete drainage pipe to another on Wednesday at a park in Katlehong township, south of Johannesburg.
In Egypt's capital, Cairo, on Monday, a man performs a folk dance outside the hospital where Hosni Mubarak is detained to celebrate the ousted president's 87th birthday.
The next day, Tunisian girls walk pass a wall covered in graffiti near the ancient Ghriba synagogue on Djerba island...
A rabbi blesses a pilgrim at the synagogue the following day. Jews make an annual pilgrimage to what is thought to be Africa's oldest synagogue.
On Tuesday, a 14-year-old girl works in her grandfather's wheat field in Qaha, north-east of Cairo.
And a young girl smiles whilst helping her family process rice from the paddies outside Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo on Friday.
