Residents of Tanzania’s main city of Dar es Salaam wade through water on Saturday to cross the road following heavy rains. According to the AFP news agency, a bridge in the area was reportedly washed away.
A street artist in wellington boots and dressed in the colours of the South African flag performs for drivers stopped at a red light in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Two days earlier, a man from Soweto attends an equestrian vaulting lesson at a horse-riding centre in the South African township.
Young cattle herders from South Sudan stand amongst their animals on Sunday in a field in the Central Equatoria state. The conflict in the world’s newest country has triggered a food crisis, the UN has warned.
On the same day, employees of Zimbabwe’s state-run rail company attend to a steam locomotive after it broke down near the capital, Harare. The “steam safari” runs occasionally as a recreational service for passengers. The 30km (18-mile) journey usually takes about an hour from Harare to Ruwa.
Also on Sunday, Ethiopian Christians wear handmade decorated palm frond crowns as they leave St Mark’s Cathedral in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
During Palm Sunday celebrations at the Vatican, Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson walks holding a palm in St Peter’s square.
On Monday, children stand as it rains in front of the Catholic church in the town of Boda in Central Africa Republic. Last week, the UN Security Council voted to send a 12,000-strong force to CAR to help end conflict between Christian and Muslim militias.
A man in CAR known as a “sandfisher” tips sand from the Ubangui river into a boat on Saturday in the capital, Bangui…
...sand, dug up from the river bed, is hauled to the bank for use in building materials.
Singers perform a ceremony in Rwanda on Friday to commemorate one of the massacres that took place during the genocide 20 years ago. About 2,000 people who had sought refuge and protection at a college in Kicukiro were abandoned by UN peacekeepers. After they left, Hutu militiamen entered the ground, marched them to a nearby rubbish dump at Nyanza and murdered them.
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie poses with director Biyi Bandele at the premier in Lagos on Saturday of the film Half of a Yellow Sun, an adaptation of her book.
On Wednesday, the leader of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), Helen Zille, kisses a resident of an informal settlement in a town in Gauteng province during door-to-door campaigning ahead of general elections next month….
While she was campaigning in Soweto on Saturday, an African National Congress (ANC) supporter hurled water bottles at DA supporters as they marched by.
On Wednesday, demonstrators in Tunis hold up pictures of relatives who died during the Tunisian uprising three years ago. They were protesting against a military court’s decision to release the interior minister and security chief who served under ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
On the same day, a woman and her daughter walk down decorated stairs in the centre of the Algerian capital, Algiers - a day before the country went to the polls to re-elect their 77-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to a fourth term in office.
