# Africa's week in pictures: 1-6 March 2025

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Stripes and shades: Africa's top shots

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

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

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

  
Marco Longari / AFP  
The children's parade gets going at the Luanda Carnival in Angola on Saturday...

  
Julio Pacheco Ntela / AFP  
The theme for this year's carnival is 50 years of Angolan independence.

  
Hector Quintanar / Getty Images  
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.

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

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

  
Tiziana Fabi / AFP  
A woman wrapped in the national flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo holds a rosary as she prays at the statue of John Paul II at the Gemelli University Hospital.

  
Simon Maina / AFP  
In Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Catholic worshippers mark Ash Wednesday.

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

  
Cem Ozdel / Getty Images  
And at The Gambia's Bijilo Forest Park on Wednesday, a curious red colobus monkey peers at the camera.

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