Africa's top shots: 17-23 February 2017
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
A traditional praise singer chants from the public gallery in South Africa's parliament ahead of the finance minister's presentation of the budget on Wednesday…
The day before, members of South Africa's National Ceremonial Guard take part in the annual National Defense Force Parade in Durban...
As part of the parade, South African special forces soldiers perform an air stunt, hanging from a helicopter with weapons drawn.
Unconnected to the military parade, a professional windsurfer performs a loop while riding south-easterly winds in the South African city of Cape Town on Tuesday.
Bagpipes are part of the festivities on Saturday for the inauguration of Adama Barrow (C) as The Gambia's new president in a packed stadium in the capital, Banjul...
Two days later, a man in the Gambian town of Bakau takes aim as he begins a game of pool.
Also pictured on Monday, these children in the Ivorian city of Abidjan muck about by a mural tribute to Congolese rumba star Papa Wemba, who died while performing in the city last year.
A Nigerian vegetable seller in Lagos uses a home-made lantern on Monday as a work-around in a country where electricity remains a luxury for many...
Another vendor at the same marketplace at least has an electric lantern so her customers can see her onions and plantains.
The top tier of a cake baked for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe's 93rd birthday is decorated with his portrait by his office staff on Tuesday.
African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Senegal, rest aboard a Spanish vessel after being rescued from a boat off the Libyan coast early on Thursday morning.
Onlookers in the Egyptian city of Mansoura on Wednesday watch the funeral of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who died in a US federal prison over the weekend...
The blind cleric, who preached at mosques in New York, was the mastermind of numerous bomb plots in the city in the early 1990s and was serving a life sentence.
A worker in Algiers removes national and German flags after the last-minute cancellation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Algeria on Monday.
And Somali-American model Halima Aden brings a new look to the catwalk in the Italian city of Milan on Thursday. The hijab-wearing 19-year-old made her haute couture debut in Kanye West's New York show last week.
Images courtesy of AP, AFP, EPA and Reuters