A selection of photos from across the African continent this week:
People walk past a clothes shop on Thursday at the official opening of the "Mall of Africa" outside Johannesburg. It is one of the biggest in South Africa and people queued to get in.
While South Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela was honoured in the Palestinian city of Ramallah on Tuesday with the unveiling of a statue donated by its twin city, Johannesburg.
In Togo's capital, Lome, on Wednesday a comedian entertains a crowd during celebrations to mark 56 years of independence from France.
The next day ivory statues are seen in front of a stockpile of ivory ahead of their burning on Saturday at the Nairobi National Park in Kenya. This would be the single biggest haul ever to be burned.
On Sunday, a young woman is seen through the horns of a bull at a cattle camp in South Sudan.
A day earlier, wrestlers, representing South Sudan's various states, compete in the capital, Juba. Jonglei state won the competition held to promote peace in a country hit by two years of civil war.
On Tuesday, a visitor looks at artwork at the Lights of Africa exhibition in Ivory Coast's main city, Abdijan.
Sculptures, photographs and paintings from each African state are on display at the exhibition, which will run until June.
While on Wednesday, fans of Papa Wemba dance at a concert in Abidjan to pay tribute to the singer after he collapsed and died on stage on Sunday aged 66.
While on Friday, men on stilts beat a 16-feet-long (almost five metres) drum at a drum festival in south-western Nigeria's Abeokuta city.
While this man plays a slightly smaller instrument at the festival held to showcase Nigeria's rich musical and cultural heritage.
