{"id":21290,"date":"2025-01-18T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-10-16-january-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:30:12","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-10-16-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-10-16-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 10-16 January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n

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

\n
\n
\"OLYMPIAOLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Monday, 31-year-old Ange Gnacadja rests on cotton harvested in Soclogbo, Benin.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"KHALEDKHALED DESOUKI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s time for the Egyptian Marathon on Saturday in Luxor.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"FETHIFETHI BELAID \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The next day in Tunisia’s capital city Tunis, dancers compete at the Juste Debout international contest.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"ESAESA ALEXANDER \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This diver in Cape Town throws shapes on a hot Saturday in South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"ABDELABDEL MAJID BZIOUAT \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Monday marks the start of the year 2975 for members of north Africa’s Amazigh communities…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"JALALJALAL MORCHIDI \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Celebrations in the Moroccan capital of Rabat include fashion shows and musical performances.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"AMANUELAMANUEL SILESHI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Earthquakes in the north of Ethiopia leave huge cracks in the road, causing this man trouble as he transports goods on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"MARCOMARCO LONGARI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Renowned chef Georgiana Viou – pictured on Sunday – trades a Michelin-starred restaurant in France for her new venture in Benin, called Restaurant L’Ami.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"OLYMPIAOLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Also in Benin days earlier, Vod\u00fan worshippers approach the palace of King Kpod\u00e9gb\u00e9 Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"MARCOMARCO LONGARI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Swirling zangbetos in an array of colours are a familiar part of Vod\u00fan festivals…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"MARCOMARCO LONGARI \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile this Vod\u00fan worshipper pauses for a portrait at the Mami Wata Temple in Ouidah.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"LEONLEON SADIKI \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"KIMKIM LUDBROOK\/EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Left without food and supplies for weeks on end, many of the survivors were emaciated and had to be stretchered away from the site because they were too weak to walk. <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"JOSPINJOSPIN MWISHA \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This boy and the many people and families around him are among more than 100,000 people who have fled their homes in Masisi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past week alone because of deadly violence between M23 rebels and the army. Despite the cost of human misery, minerals from here are found in smartphones sold the world over.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"PHILLPHILL MAGAKOE \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Slick choreography for the inauguration of Mozambique’s new president, Daniel Chapo, includes the handing out of refreshments featuring his portrait…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n
\n
\"ESTEVAOESTEVAO CHAVISSO \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And on the same day, protesters against the election, who do not recognise Chapo as the rightful president, make their voices heard.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

From the BBC in Africa this week:<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\"GettyGetty Images\/BBC<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP On Monday, 31-year-old Ange Gnacadja rests on cotton harvested in Soclogbo, Benin. KHALED DESOUKI \/ AFP It’s time for the Egyptian Marathon on Saturday in Luxor. FETHI BELAID \/ AFP The next day in Tunisia’s capital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[486,1054,135,145],"class_list":["post-21290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-africas","tag-january","tag-pictures","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21292,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions\/21292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}