A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Cem Ozdel/Getty Images
Two members of Senegal's Baye Fall community, a Muslim group whose followers wear colourful clothing, greet each other on Friday in Diourbel as they gather to cook a meal to break their Ramadan fast.
Issouf Sanogo/AFP
A supporter of Ivory Coast's ex-President Laurant Gbagbo attends at event in Agboville, where the veteran politician said he still had presidential ambitions - despite being currently ineligible to stand.
Fareed Kotb/Getty Images
The next day in Egypt's capital, Cairo, a girl learns how to make kahk biscuits being prepared ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr...
Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
It is one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic calendar. As the sun rises near Egypt's pyramids in Giza on Wednesday, people take selfies and wait to attend Eid prayers…
Gerald Anderson/Getty Images
For Eid prayers in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, people gather at a cricket field at the Ali Muslim Club Ground...
Brenton Geach/Getty Images
At a rugby field in the South African city of Cape Town, Muslim volunteers prepare to feed more than 90,000 people for Eid...
Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images
Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of Ramadan, and means "festival of the breaking of the fast". Here a woman at Eid prayers in Nigeria's city of Lagos has decorated her hands with henna...
John Wessels/AFP
During the Eid celebrations, people often dress up in new clothes, like these girls in the Senegalese town of Cap Skirring...
Cem Ozdel/Getty Images
This woman in Senegal's capital, Dakar, wears white like others in her district who gather for Eid prayers on the beach...
Feisal Omar/Reuters
During the festivities in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, boys play with toy guns given to them for the occassion.
Ed Ram/Getty Images
It is a day for Muslims to relax and recover, here men play cards on the side of the road in Chad's capital, N'Djamena…
Emmanuel Osodi/Getty Images
In Nigeria's capital, Abuja, people flock to an amusement park - here flying high on eagles, a bird of prey on the country's coat of arms...
Emmanuel Osodi/Getty Images
Others choose a more grounded ride at Magic Land...
Marvellous Durowaiye/Reuters
While horsemen participating in Nigeria's Zazzau Emirates Eid events are pictured in their finery Kaduna, north of Abuja.
Michele Spartari/AFP
A more mundane outfit is warn by this equestrian for a show-jumping competition in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday.
Daniel Irungu/EPA
Kenyan medics in Nairobi protest on Tuesday over salary arrears and delays by the government to deploy medical interns.
Benjamin Cremel/AFP
An exhibit called The War Library by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare is pictured at a gallery in London on Thursday. The bookshelves are full of wax-print-covered books about warfare.
Nic Bothma/Reuters
A vegetable vendor in Cape Town continues to work on Monday despite heavy rain and gale-force winds.
Wikus de Wet/AFP
In Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighbourhood, famous for its colourfully painted houses and a traditionally Muslim area, a pro-Palestinian mural is seen on Friday.
Jalal Morchidi/EPA
And players from the Zambian women's football team celebrate their qualification for the Olympics after beating Morocco in Rabat on Tuesday.
Cem Ozdel/Getty Images
Issouf Sanogo/AFP
Fareed Kotb/Getty Images
Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Gerald Anderson/Getty Images
Brenton Geach/Getty Images
Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images
John Wessels/AFP
Cem Ozdel/Getty Images
Feisal Omar/Reuters
Ed Ram/Getty Images
Emmanuel Osodi/Getty Images
Emmanuel Osodi/Getty Images
Marvellous Durowaiye/Reuters
Michele Spartari/AFP
Daniel Irungu/EPA
Benjamin Cremel/AFP
Nic Bothma/Reuters
Wikus de Wet/AFP
Jalal Morchidi/EPA