Africa Picture Week: May 31 to June 6, 2024

This week’s selection of the best photos from the African continent:

With the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris fast approaching, athletes were training in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday to warm up in hopes of winning gold.

A man carries a sheep at an Egyptian market in the city of Giza on Thursday in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the important Islamic holiday.

An ocean baptism was held early Sunday morning on a beach in the South African city of Durban.

Tornado-like storms hit the country’s KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces the next day, causing flooding and massive damage, as pictured here on Tuesday…

More than 20 people died in the severe weather conditions. A community came together to clean up some of the flooding in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.

Representatives of the Ashanti King of Ghana held a solemn ceremony on Saturday at the funeral of late Ivorian President Henri Konan Bedier, who was buried in Pepresu, eastern Côte d’Ivoire, ten months after his death. hometown…

Delegations from the region traveled to pay their respects to Bedier.

A performer from Senegal’s famous Fake Lion Beach entertainment show poses for the camera during a cultural event in Senegal’s capital Dhaka on Wednesday.

In the same event, the canoe racing was very competitive.

On the same day, a four-year-old girl prepared to plant a tree along the Mathare River near her home in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, which was destroyed by floods weeks ago.

Nigeria’s students, who found themselves locked out of schools on Monday amid a nationwide strike demanding a higher minimum wage, looked absolutely fed up.

A mobile library dubbed “Taxi Book” opened in Alexandria, Egypt, on Monday. Mohammad Azam decided to use his taxi to spread the love of reading, delivering textbooks and novels to passers-by.

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