A selection of the photos from across Africa this week:
Drinking water is drying up in Botswana amid a drought which has led to water rationing - this man was able to cross the Bokaa Dam by donkey and cart on Friday
Final preparations - including posing for the press by Kenya's David Lekuta Rudisha - are being made for the World Athletics Championships which get underway on Saturday
On Sunday Sierra Leone's "Refugee All Stars performed at a music festival in Bogota in Columbia
A Tunisian dance troupe performs the story of Tamyourth, in which a man falls in love with the vision of a woman in the moonlight, at the Carthage Festival in Tunis on Sunday
Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, right, paid a visit to his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris on Tuesday - they spoke about the threat of the Islamist militants Boko Haram
Cameroonian Breel Embolo looks like he is levitating as he celebrates a goal on Wednesday for Swiss Super League team Basel with his Egyptian teammate Mohamed El Nenny
On Thursday tourists find out what a life-size, anatomically-correct Tyrannosaurus Rex looks like in Cape Town
