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Africa’s week in pictures: 14-20 August 2020
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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On Monday pictures emerge of the ship that ran aground off the coast of Mauritius split in two…
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… on the previous Saturday workers collect oil that had leaked from the ship…
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…. The oil from the ship, the MV Wakashio, causes ecological devastation in the reef.
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On Tuesday Malians watch television to see their president’s resignation speech…
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… President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had been arrested earlier that day by Malian mutineers who stormed through the capital, Bamako.
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On Tuesday South African farmers stage a protest about attacks on farms. The two in the picture, Alwyn van Zyl, and his wife Pauline, were attacked in March. She survived but he died.
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On Friday Morocco’s Soufiane EL Bakkali competes in the steeplechase in Monaco.
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On Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kishasa, Catholic Mass is celebrated for the first time since lockdown began in March.
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The previous day, volunteers disinfect the prayer hall in the El Fateh mosque in Algeria’s capital Algiers to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
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In another part of the city people cool off at the beach.
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… Same day, different beach. This time in the small fishing village of Bargny in Senegal.
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On Tuesday people relax at the beach in Libya’s capital Tripoli amid a heat wave and a power cut.
Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, EPA and Reuters.