Africa's week in pictures: 22-28 June 2018

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.

News imageAFP A displaced Somali girl attends a class at a makeshift school at the Badbado IDP camp in Mogadishu, Somalia - 25 June 2018AFP
A girl smiles during a lesson at a camp for displaced people in Somalia's capital on Monday…
News imageAFP A displaced Somali boy attends a class at a makeshift school at the Badbado IDP camp in Mogadishu, Somalia - 25 June 2018AFP
University students have been volunteering to teach about 600 children at various camps in Mogadishu for more than a year, AFP reports.
News imageAFP A Kenyan couple dance at the construction site of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi, Kenya - Saturday 23 June 2018AFP
A Kenyan couple dance on Saturday at the construction site of a railway between Nairobi and Naivasha as the president came to inspect the project…
News imageAFP A track-laying machine at the construction site of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi, Kenya - Saturday 23 June 2018AFP
Here a track-laying machine is pictured constructing what will be Kenya's longest railway bridge.
News imageAFP A helicopter flying over a rhino in Nairobi National Park, Kenya - Tuesday 26 June 2016AFP
Vets prepare to shoot a black rhino with a tranquiliser on Tuesday so it can be relocated from Nairobi National Park to an area in the south-east of the country.
News imageAFP Kenyans on bikes watch a football match on a giant screen in Nairobi - Tuesday 26 June 2018AFP
On the same day, Kenyans watch Nigeria take on Argentina at the World Cup on a screen installed on a truck in Nairobi…
News imageEPA Nigerian footballer Victor Moses doing a somersault in Russia - Tuesday 26 June 2018EPA
The match saw Super Eagle Victor Moses somersaulting after scoring an equaliser…
News imageAFP A crying Nigerian fan in Lagos, Nigeria - Tuesday 26 June 2018AFP
But this Lagos fan's devastation after Argentina scored to win 2-1 summed up the feeling of many African fans...
News imageEPA Painted Senegalese fans saluting in Russia - Thursday 28 June 2018EPA
Senegal was the continent's last hope of getting to the knockout round. These fans in Russia salute before the match on Thursday against Colombia...
News imageAFP Senegalese supporters watch the Senegal v Colombia match on a giant screen at a fanzone in Dakar, Senegal - Thursday 28 June 2018AFP
Back home thousands watching on a giant screen are left broken hearted when the Lions of Taranga go on to lose the game.
News imageReuters Morocco fans inside the stadium before the match, Kaliningrad, Russia - Monday 25 June 2018Reuters
Moroccan fans still cheered on the Atlas Lions on Monday, even though the team was already out before kick-off against Spain.
News imageEPA Fans watch a match between Japan and Senegal in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Sunday 24 June 2018EPA
Ivory Coast didn't make it to the World Cup, but fans are still glued to the TV in Abidjan - pictured here on Sunday watching Senegal v Japan.
News imageEPA People playing football in the streets of MonroviaEPA
On the same day, the empty streets of Liberia's capital, Monrovia, mean people can play some football for themselves.
News imageAFP A woman walks past a collection of ties that belonged to South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, South Africa - Thursday 28 July 2018AFP
A woman walks past a collection of ties which belonged to South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela on Thursday as the country prepares to mark 100 years since the anti-apartheid icon's birth.
News imageAFP Followers of controversial preacher Elisabeth Wosho Onyumbe arriving at her funeral in Kinshasa, DR Congo - Saturday 23 June 2018AFP
Followers of preacher Elisabeth Wosho Onyumbe, known as "Maman Olangi", arrive at her funeral in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday...
News imageAFP Mourners of preacher Elisabeth Wosho Onyumbe dressed in white at her funeral in Kinshasa, DR Congo - Saturday 23 June 2018AFP
Thousands of people dressed in white in the capital, Kinshasa, to mourn the wealthy founder of a Pentecostal church.
News imageAFP Algerian Kawther Mehani dives for the ball in Cambrils, Spain - Thursday 287 June 2018AFP
An Algerian beach volleyball player dives during a match against Spain on Thursday at the Mediterranean Games in the Spanish town of Cambrils.
News imageEPA Egyptians cool off near Cairo at Ain Al Sera lake in Al Fostat district, Cairo, Egypt - Friday 22 June 2018EPA
And finally, Egyptians - and a horse - cool off in a lake on Friday near Cairo as temperatures soar to 40C.

Images from AFP, EPA and Reuters.