Africa’s week in pictures: 15 – 21 May 2020

by BBC NewsMay 21, 20200272

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

A close shot of a woman having kohl liner applied to her eyes. — Image caption On Friday, bride-to-be Marie Andrea Offoumou gets ready for her wedding…

A couple dressed in wedding finery hold hands as the officiant stands before them. — Image caption The 28-year-old married Indat Ange Désiré in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan soon after the lockdown was eased.

A boy grimaces as his hair is clasped and trimmed by a gloved barber. — Image caption On Monday, a barber cuts this young client’s hair in Egypt’s capital of Cairo…

A woman uses a pin-like implement to make decorative pattern on a small pastry before it goes in an oven. — Image caption And women in northern Egypt prepare butter biscuits called Kahk on Saturday.

A man wearing a yellow PPE suit sprays mosque stairwell that is illuminated by coloured glass windows. — Image caption On Tuesday in Algeria, volunteers spray inside a building with disinfectant.

Dozens of masked male and female health workers stand in formation as they stretch in sync. — Image caption Frontline medical staff warm up before a free zumba class at Nairobi’s Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital on Sunday.

An inside view of an empty aeroplane stripped of its seats. — Image caption Pre-pandemic, this Ethiopian Airlines plane would normally be full of people but instead its seats are stripped on Friday to make way for cargo.

A woman wearing a mask walks past a large mural depicting a person wearing a mask. — Image caption On the same day, a woman walks past a mural reminding Abidjan’s residents of anti-coronavirus hygiene measures…

A woman wearing a mask walks past a large mural depicting a masked health worker cradling the nation of Morocco in their arms. — Image caption It’s a similar scene in Sale, Morocco, on Sunday where this graffiti encourages people to stay at home to avoid spreading the virus…

A woman walks past a mural whose slogan reads: "Take responsibility, fight against Covid-19 as a community." — Image caption And also the next day in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, where residents are reminded it’s a community effort.

A woman holds several newly introduced bank notes, all in denominations of 10. — Image caption On Wednesday, a woman holds freshly minted bank notes in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, brought into circulation to ease the cash crisis.

A woman looks back at her glasses as she is forcibly carried away by uniformed officers. — Image caption On Monday Ugandan police seize activist Stella Nyanzi, leaving her glasses behind, at a protest she called against the government’s handling of food relief.

A boy wearing a knitted hat and jumper stands next to a line of adults wearing clothes in various patterns. — Image caption This boy waits alongside adults queuing to vote in Burundi’s general election on Wednesday, which at least one opposition figure has already labelled a sham.

Two masked people look on as a tailor creates face masks. — Image caption A tailor fashions face masks at his sewing machine in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, on Monday.

Two geese are seen on a lake, one swims while the other flaps out its wings. — Image caption A day earlier, a goose stretches its wings at a lake in South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg.

A cat stretches out one paw as it lays down in a mosque. — Image caption While a cat takes it easy at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, on the same day.

Pictures from AFP, EPA and Reuters.

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