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Africa's week in pictures: 1-7 April 2022

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

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News imageGetty Images A young boy makes a funny face at the camera during prayers.Getty Images
This Muslim boy clocks the camera at Friday prayers in Yaoundé, Cameroon...
News imageReuters A man arranges watermelons as he waits for customers.Reuters
The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins the next day, when this vendor arranges his watermelons at a market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu...
News imageEPA A Tunisian confectioner holds up a zlabia in a pastry shop in Tunis, Tunisia.EPA
Zlabia pastries, seen here on Monday, are one of the most popular desserts among Tunisians when breaking their daily fasts.
News imageGetty Images Two South African reality TV stars, Roxy Louw and Kelly Khumalo, take a selfie together.Getty Images
Reality TV stars Roxy Louw and Kelly Khumalo pose at the Johannesburg launch party for South African series Tropika Island of Treasure on Friday.
News imageGetty Images A man looks at artworks by Pablo Picasso at a dedicated exhibition at Dakar's Musée des Civilisations Noires.Getty Images
On the same day numerous works by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso - whose style borrowed heavily from African art - go on show in Senegal's capital, Dakar.
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News imageAFP Women buy bowls and plates at a market.AFP
Also in Senegal on Sunday, women browse shiny serving bowls on sale at a market in the town of Rufisque.
News imageGetty Images Men charge on horseback while firing muskets.Getty Images
In Morocco on Friday, riders take part in festivities that are named "tebburide" after the type of gunpowder used...
News imageGetty Images A man rides a horse kitted out in ornate and colourful tack.Getty Images
The practice is said to date back to 15th Century victory celebrations against the Spanish.
News imageGetty Images South African football fan Mama Joy Chauke holds up a scarf with the words "South Africa" knitted into it.Getty Images
Superfan Mama Joy Chauke attends the Fifa World Cup draw in Qatar on Friday. She is a well-known figure in her home country as head of the South African National Supporters (Sanasu).
News imageAFP A woman wearing protective goggles and earmuffs shoots with a CZ Shadow 2 9mm pistol.AFP
Dozen of women take part in a shooting meet in Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa, on Saturday.
News imageGetty Images Children play billiards in the Sayeda Zainab district of Cairo.Getty Images
While these children shoot a game of pool after dark on Wednesday in Egypt's capital, Cairo.
News imageReuters People carry a portrait of Thomas Sankara to a memorial site.Reuters
Also on Wednesday, people in Burkina Faso hold a memorial to pan-African hero and late President Thomas Sankara, after his successor Blaise Compaoré is sentence to life in absentia for Sankara's 1987 murder.
News imageGetty Images A smiling woman standing in the street holds a Sudanese flag.Getty Images
And on the same day in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, people rally to mark three years since regular, mass pro-democracy protests began.

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