A man does an acrobatic jump on a beach in Tanzania’s main city of Dar es Salaam on Saturday, the day the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the union between the archipelago of Zanzibar and mainland Tanganyika.
The next day in downtown Dar es Salaam, a man who offers bicycle tours of the old city is pictured. The Afri Roots tours take in historic hangouts in the port city of former revolutionaries, including Nelson Mandela and Che Guevara, the AFP news agency reports.
African Union peacekeepers in the Central African Republic escort a convoy of about 1,000 Muslims from the capital, Bangui, to northern towns which border Chad on Monday. Around a quarter of the country's population has fled their homes since conflict erupted last year between mainly Muslim and Christian militias.
A woman in the convoy gives birth to twins in the back of a Unicef vehicle, assisted by a medic. The convoy also came under attack on Monday from suspected Christian vigilantes who killed two of the Muslim passengers and wounded six others.
Here a displaced Christian family in CAR prepares food on Saturday in the courtyard of a Catholic church in Bouca, where some took people refuge when the mainly Muslim rebels overtook the town in March 2013.
On Sunday, Pope Francis greets Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in the Vatican after the canonisation mass of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at St Peter’s…
Catholics from around the world, like this couple from Cameroon pictured on Saturday, congregated for the historic ceremony - the first time that two popes were declared saints at the same time.
On Wednesday, thousands of South Africans queue in London’s Trafalgar Square to cast their votes early in general elections, which will be held in South Africa on 7 May. According to the Cape Times newspaper, the London High Commission had the highest number of registered voters at 9,863 and Guinea-Bissau the smallest, with only one person registered.
In South Africa’s capital of Pretoria on Sunday, a girl with an African National Congress logo on her face takes part in the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid. The ANC won the country's first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.
People deported from Congo-Brazzaville disembark on Tuesday across the river in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several thousand people have so far been forcibly sent back to DR Congo in a police operation against illegal migrants.
On the same day, two men sit outside a tailor’s shop in Qoryooley, a town in Somalia recently captured from Islamist al-Shabab militants by African Union (AU) forces.
Here, a Ugandan soldier in the AU force in Somalia launches a surveillance drone over Qoryooley, also on Tuesday.
In an undisclosed location in South Sudan on Tuesday, Riek Machar - the country’s former vice-president and now rebel leader - talks to UN officials in his office under a tree.
The next day, a man dressed up as Darth Vader, a character from the Star Wars films, takes part in a parade in the centre of Tunis. The event was organised by Tunisia’s tourism office as some of the locations for the science fiction epic were filmed in the country.
Karate kids are a plenty in Benghazi on Saturday, as the city hosted Libya’s Karate Championship.
And Burkinabe defender Bakary Kone grins after scoring a goal for his French football side Olympique Lyonnais on Sunday. The team went on to win the game against Bastia 4-1.
