{"id":11875,"date":"2024-09-20T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-6\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:54:55","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 6"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"MKHULULIMKHULULI SIBANDS \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Saturday in Zimbabwe, people gather near the city of Bulawayo to commemorate King Mzilikazi who founded the Ndebele kingdom.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JOHNJOHN WESSELS \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Monday in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, a man shields himself from the rain.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"EMMANUELEMMANUEL CROSET \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Prize-winning Zimbabwean painter Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude stands next to one of his pieces at an art fair in South Africa on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ALEXIALEXI ROSENFELD \/GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

South Africa’s DJ Zinhle attends New York Fashion Week on Tuesday…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"SOPHIESOPHIE SAHARA \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As does Senegalese-American writer Amy Sall.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"RAULRAUL ARBOLEDA \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Friday, Achta Toko Njoya of Cameroon celebrates with teammates after scoring against Australia at the Under-20 Fifa Women’s World Cup in Colombia.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ANGELAANGELA WEISS \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

South African star Tyla takes home the MTV Video Music Award for best afrobeats song – for her track Water – at Wednesday’s ceremony in New York. She used her acceptance speech to point out that diverse African genres are too often lumped together as “afrobeats”, and she in fact makes amapiano music.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"CHRISCHRIS UNGER \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Josias Musasa from the Democratic Republic of Congo triumphs over Otari Tanzilovi of Georgia in a bantamweight fight on Tuesday in the US.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LOULOU BENOIST \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Senegalese actors Anna Diakhere Thiandoum and Ibrahima Mbaye attend Deauville Film Festival on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MOHAMEDMOHAMED MESSARA \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Voters in Algeria go to the polls on Saturday in an election which saw President Abdelmadjid Tebboune win a second term.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"DOAADOAA ADEL \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Families harvest dates in the Egyptian town of Badrashin on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MICHELEMICHELE SPATARI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Vendors sell yellow flowers and balloons in Addis Ababa on Tuesday as people prepare for Ethiopian New Year, called Enkutatash.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AUDUAUDU MARTE \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Homes are submerged in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, after flooding caused a nearby dam to collapse. Across the country in recent weeks, 170 people have died as result of floods and tens of thousands have been forced from their homes.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"GERALSGERALS ANDERSON \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Rangers care for the last two living northern white rhinos – Najin and her daughter Fatu – at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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From the BBC in Africa this week:<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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