Africa’s week in pictures: 7-13 June 2024

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent:

Mohamed Hossam/EPA A boy jumps into the Nile River on 8 June.

On Saturday, this young man jumps into the Nile River to escape the sweltering heatwave sweeping across Egypt.

Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Cast members of the musical Cats rehearse in Kenya on 7 June.

Members of the Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) rehearse on the stage before the opening night of the musical “Cats” in Nairobi on Friday.

Cem Ozdel/Getty Images Two Senegalese men clasp hands as they wrestle in the capital Dakar on 9 June.

It’s a battle of brawn as two men wrestle in the Senegalese cultural spectacle known as “laamb” in the Wolof language in Dakar on Sunday.

Luis Tato/AFP Two Kenyans wearing white fencing gear fight in the streets of Nairobi 9 June

In Kenya, swords not fists are used as members of the Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club fence in the streets of Mathare, an informal settlement of Nairobi, as part of an initiative to offer hope in a place riddled with crime and lack of opportunity.

Rogan Ward/Reuters Fisherman run across a beach in Scottburgh, South Africa on 12 June.

A misty Wednesday sees fisherman haul in sardines caught in the coastal resort town Scottburgh in South Africa…

Rogan Ward/Reuters A view of fish caught in a net during the sardine run in Scottburgh, South Africa on June 12.

And the haul is bountiful.

Thomas Mukoya/Reuters An inmate, receives makeup before participating in the annual Miss Langata Prison beauty show on 7 June.

Excitement sweeps through Langata Women Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi, as the inmates doll up to vie for the crown in the annual Miss Langata Prison beauty show on Friday.

Tiksa Negeri/Reuters Illegal guns are burnt in Ethiopia at the Kolfe Police Training Camp on 7 June.

On the same day, at the Kolfe Police Training Camp on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, illegal guns recovered during various security operations are doused in fuel and burnt.

Legnan Koula/EPA A sacrificial animal for sale looks on at the city market ahead of Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 12 June 2024.

An animal due to be sold and slaughtered looks out from its cage in a bustling market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha.

Feisal Omar/Reuters A man jumps into the Indian Ocean waters to join others in Somalia, Mogadishu on 7 June.

A Somali man jumps into the Indian Ocean at a beach in the capital, Mogadishu, to join a group of revellers on Friday.

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Two men take a walk on a winter in the south of Johannesburg, South Africa on 12 June.

Winter has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and two men brave a frosty Wednesday morning to go on a walk, as temperatures drop in the South African city of Johannesburg.