A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:
On Sunday, as the sun rises over the east coast of South Africa, a surfer jumps into the ocean.
Franco-Guinean actress and influencer Fatoumata Guinea Kaba will walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Friday…
Also in Cannes that day was Somali-American model Halima Aden, who received the Women’s Empowerment Gong at the World Influencers and Bloggers Awards (Wiba).
On Saturday, a visitor looks at works by Mohamed Ben Methaf during the Carthage Contemporary Art Days festival in the Tunisian capital.
The next day, Israelis of Ethiopian origin hold up photos of their relatives during a demonstration in Jerusalem calling on the government to end the freeze on the emigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
In Guinea-Bissau, supporters of Domingos Simões Pereira and his Inclusive Alliance Platform gather in the capital on Monday ahead of the June 4 elections.
On Saturday, an Egyptian band performs at the International Festival of Drumming and Traditional Arts in the capital, Cairo.
On the same day, a football fan cheers on Senegal against Colombia at the Under-20 World Cup in the Argentinian city of La Plata. The match ended in a draw.
Bola Tinubu was sworn in as president of Africa’s largest democracy at a ceremony in Abuja on Monday, vowing to tackle endemic insecurity in Nigeria and introduce economic reforms.
Clashes broke out in the Senegalese capital the same day between the police and supporters of Ousmane Sonko. Later that week, the opposition leader was sentenced to two years in prison.
The Rabat African Capital of Culture fashion show ends on Tuesday with these creations by Moroccan Fadila El Gadi.
And the sun sets on Saturday on the island of Mayotte, in the French Indian Ocean, which has begun an operation to deport migrants, many of whom come from neighboring Comoros.
