Athletes warm up at a training session in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, on Saturday in the hopes of taking home the gold as the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris approach.
A man is seen carrying a sheep on Thursday in the Egyptian market in Giza, ready for Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, a significant Islamic holiday.
Early on Sunday mornings, ocean baptisms are conducted at a beach in the South African city of Durban.
The following day, tornado-like storms hit the country’s Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, causing significant destruction and flooding, as seen in this Tuesday photo.
The extreme weather claimed the lives of around 20 people. Here, on Wednesday, a community comes together to remove a portion of the floodwaters in the Eastern Cape.
Representatives of the Ashanti ruler of Ghana attended the funeral of the late Ivorian President Henri Konan Bédié on Saturday. He was laid to rest in his hometown of Pépressou, in the eastern Ivory Coast, ten months after his passing.
Traveling delegations from the area came to pay tribute to Bédié, who presided over Ivory Coast from 1993 until his overthrow in a coup in 1999.
On Wednesday at a cultural event in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, a performer from the well-known Fake Lion beach amusement performance poses for the camera.
