Africa’s week in pictures: 1-6 March 2025

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Africa’s week in pictures: 1-6 March 2025

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:

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A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday.

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Four-year-old Maëlis Kouakou dresses up for Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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The children’s parade gets going at the Luanda Carnival in Angola on Saturday…

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The theme for this year’s carnival is 50 years of Angolan independence.

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On Tuesday, people of African descent get ready for the Carnival of Coyolillo in Mexico. Their dances are described as being similar to others found in Mozambique, Mali and Zambia.

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On the same day in Ibadan, Nigeria, art historian and designer Olushola Olajobi shows some of his pieces made from waste products.

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The next day in Lagos, fashion designer Florentina Agu displays some of her creations.

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Days earlier in the same city, Omobolaji Oyeleye, who runs a private security company, stands at the gates at one of her work sites in the upmarket Ikoyi suburb.

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On Monday, motorcycle taxi drivers in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, protest against the new ban on all motorcycle transport in the city.

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Namibians pay their respects to the country’s first president, Sam Nujoma, before his burial on Saturday.

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On the same day, a well-wisher draped in the Congolese flag prays for the health of Pope Francis in the Italian capital, Rome.

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In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Catholic worshippers mark Ash Wednesday.

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A woman joins evening prayers in South Africa’s Gauteng province on Sunday, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

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That evening after sundown at Senegal’s famous Massalikoul Djinane mosque, Muslims break their fast at the first iftar dinner of Ramadan.

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At sunrise on Thursday, canoeists glide across the Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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And at The Gambia’s Bijilo Forest Park on Wednesday, a curious red colobus monkey peers at the camera.

From the BBC in Africa this week:

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