A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week:
Athletes in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, await starter's orders for the Great Ethiopian Run on Sunday...
More than 30,000 people take part in the annual 10km (six mile) event, which welcomes elite athletes as well as amateur enthusiasts.
The same day, children cool off in the shade of a vintage biplane at Khartoum airport in the Sudanese capital. The fleet of aircraft, made before 1949, is taking part in a five-week rally across the continent.
Also on Sunday, a group of young Liberian boys work on their taekwondo moves at a martial arts club in the capital, Monrovia...
The Eagle Taekwondo Club has been going for 20 years, with several former students going on to represent the West African country at Olympic level.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Ivory Coast,, a man flies a kite on a beach resort of Grand Bassam.
Earlier in the week in the same town on Sunday, a participant in the annual traditional feast of the Nzima people waits for her king...
He arrives after a short while and is carried through the crowd on a litter...
The queen also gets the royal treatment at the ceremony which is about conveying messages of peace.
The royal theme continues on Monday outside the High Court in London, as a Nigerian monarch attends a hearing to establish whether thousands of members of his community can seek compensation in the UK from Royal Dutch Shell in the over oil spills in the Niger Delta.
On Wednesday, Senegalese men chat after being rescued when their boat got into trouble off the coast of Libya...
As the rescue boat makes its way to Italy, many of those on board take shelter under gold survival blankets, while others wear rain ponchos to keep dry.
And in the Egyptian capital Cairo, a group practises a novel form of meditation in a salt cave, in pictures published by Reuters on Thursday...
The businessman behind the venture swears by the healing qualities of salt.
A tourist and vendor haggle over a curio of a rhino in Hout Bay harbour near the South African city of Cape Town on Thursday.
Men push a motorist stranded on a flooded street in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam on Wednesday.
And a man arranges vinyl records on Thursday at his stall where he sells second-hand vinyl records and restores vintage players Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Images courtesy of AFP, EPA, Getty Images and Reuters
