A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.
Maitre Gims (L), a rapper born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, poses next to a wax sculpture of himself as its unveiling at the Musee Grevin wax museum in France's capital, Paris, on Monday.
Moroccan military planes release trails of white smoke in Casablanca to mark the 60th anniversary of the national airline Royal Air Maroc on Saturday...
Moroccan military paragliders also took part in the display watched by crowds on the seafront.
The next day, creative tailoring is on display at the ruling Frelimo party congress in Mozambique. The material is emblazoned with the face of Filipe Nyusi, Mozambique's president and Frelimo leader.
On the same day, Angolan model Maria Borges takes part in a fashion show on a catwalk set up on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris.
Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda kisses the award for her role in the film Volubilis at a film festival in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of El-Gouna on Friday.
A couple sprinkle themselves with water on Sunday during celebrations for Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people in the Ethiopian town of Bishoftu...
The annual event marks the end of the rainy season. Last year, a deadly stampede at the festival sparked anti-government unrest.
The next day, a Kenyan opposition protester, demanding the sacking of electoral officials ahead of the re-run of the presidential poll, throws stones at riot policemen in Kisumu.
In the Kibera slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday, a resident takes a selfie along a railway track.
People help themselves to beer from a truck that crashed on a motorway outside South Africa's city of Johannesburg on Friday.
Four days later, canoeists train in the early morning fog on the Emmarencia Dam in central Johannesburg.
Migrants on a wooden boat await rescue from a German vessel some 50 nautical miles (90 nautical kilometres) north of the Tunisian-Libyan land border on Saturday.
And competitors search for checkmate during the Sudan National Chess Championship in preparation for the Olympics in the capital, Khartoum, on Friday.
Originally published on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41515849
Maitre Gims (L), a rapper born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, poses next to a wax sculpture of himself as its unveiling at the Musee Grevin wax museum in France's capital, Paris, on Monday.
Moroccan military planes release trails of white smoke in Casablanca to mark the 60th anniversary of the national airline Royal Air Maroc on Saturday...
Moroccan military paragliders also took part in the display watched by crowds on the seafront.
The next day, creative tailoring is on display at the ruling Frelimo party congress in Mozambique. The material is emblazoned with the face of Filipe Nyusi, Mozambique's president and Frelimo leader.
On the same day, Angolan model Maria Borges takes part in a fashion show on a catwalk set up on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris.
Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda kisses the award for her role in the film Volubilis at a film festival in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of El-Gouna on Friday.
A couple sprinkle themselves with water on Sunday during celebrations for Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people in the Ethiopian town of Bishoftu...
The annual event marks the end of the rainy season. Last year, a deadly stampede at the festival sparked anti-government unrest.
The next day, a Kenyan opposition protester, demanding the sacking of electoral officials ahead of the re-run of the presidential poll, throws stones at riot policemen in Kisumu.
In the Kibera slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday, a resident takes a selfie along a railway track.
People help themselves to beer from a truck that crashed on a motorway outside South Africa's city of Johannesburg on Friday.
Four days later, canoeists train in the early morning fog on the Emmarencia Dam in central Johannesburg.
Migrants on a wooden boat await rescue from a German vessel some 50 nautical miles (90 nautical kilometres) north of the Tunisian-Libyan land border on Saturday.
And competitors search for checkmate during the Sudan National Chess Championship in preparation for the Olympics in the capital, Khartoum, on Friday.
Originally published on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41515849
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