A selection of the week’s best photos from the African continent and beyond:
Kenyan ballet students rehearse for a show in Nairobi’s Kibera neighborhood on Wednesday. (GORDWIN ODHIAMBO / AFP)
An artist paints a mural of Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif in her hometown of Tiaret, in southwestern Algeria, on Friday. (BILLEL BENSALEM/GETTY IMAGES)
On the same day, Julia Vincent will represent South Africa in the final of the women’s three-meter diving event at the Olympic Games in Paris. (OLI SCARFF / AFP)
The next day in Pretoria, former Miss South Africa Ndavi Nokeri takes to the red carpet ahead of this year’s event… (OUPA BOPAPRE / GETTY IMAGES)
Mia le Roux was crowned the eventual winner of the competition after a controversial few weeks in which one contestant withdrew amid public criticism of her Nigerian heritage. (FRENNIE SHIVAMBU/GETTY IMAGES)
A Simb artist wears face paint and a costume in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Monday… ( RICCI SHRYOCK / AFP )
The group organizes events throughout the year, including wrestling matches and on Independence Day. (RICCI SHRYOCK / AFP)
A worshipper carries offerings in a gourd at the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Forest in Osogbo, southwestern Nigeria, on Friday… (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
The annual Osun festival draws devotees from far and wide. (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
The next day in South Africa, near Johannesburg, a cosplayer takes part in a medieval fantasy fair. (EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)
Large crowds greet Letsile Tebogo in Gaborone on Tuesday after the Botswana sprinter was crowned the world’s fastest man in the 200 metres at the Olympic Games. (MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP)
As peace talks begin on Wednesday, Sudanese protesters in Switzerland are calling for an end to the civil war in their homeland. (SALVATORE DI NOLFI/EPA)
Workers harvest delicate jasmine leaves near Egypt’s Nile Delta on Sunday. (AHMED GAMAL/GETTY IMAGES)
And in the same country, a few days later, a man plays with a laser as people look up at the night sky to see the Milky Way. (AHMED MOSAAD/GETTY IMAGES)
From the BBC in Africa this week:
(Getty Images/BBC)
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