Africa in pictures: 14-20 June 2013
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A butcher in South Africa prepares a cow’s head on Tuesday at Johannesburg’s Farady Market, known for its stalls selling “muti” or traditional medicine.
The day before, a resident of Diepsloot, a township north of Johannesburg, is pictured with a wheelbarrow ...
... Monday was a public holiday in South Africa to mark Youth Day, which commemorates the Soweto Uprising in 1976 when students protested against the apartheid government. Here children in Diepsloot look at photographs on a mobile phone as they wait for a haircut.
An Ivorian hairdresser styles her client’s hair at her shop in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Tuesday.
The city is currently hosting the Festival Rabat Africa, organised annually to mark World Refugee day. Here two dancers, one from sub-Saharan African and the other from Morocco, perform together on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Tunisian midfielder Oussama Darragi sucks his thumb in celebration in front of a camera after scoring against Equatorial Guinea in Malabo in a football World Cup qualifying match, which ended in a draw.
South Sudanese men play volleyball during a training session in South Sudan's capital, Juba, on Wednesday.
The day before in neighbouring Sudan, men sit on their camels as they wait for the arrival of foreign envoys and UN officials visiting Shangil Tobaya in Darfur. As many as 1.4 million people remain homeless in this western region of Sudan after a decade-long conflict.
On Wednesday, wardens working for the Kenya Wildlife Service secure a sedated elephant on the back of a truck during a relocation exercise to move 10 elephants which have been encroaching on community land to a national park.
On the same day, a Somali soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade after al-Shabab militants attacked a United Nations compound in the capital, Mogadishu, near the heavily fortified airport. Fifteen people died during the raid.
Despite such militant attacks, the improving security situation over the last few years has prompted the return of many Somalis from the diaspora. On Tuesday, two men are seen standing in the open yard of a Mogadishu showroom which sells second-hand motor cars imported from Dubai.
Cocktails made with the Ghanaian spirit “akpeteshie” are served at a bar in Ghana’s capital, Accra, this week.
A homeless child running a shoe-shine stall on a street in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, repairs his shoe on Sunday.
On Thursday, a child in South Africa adds a get-well message to a poster for former President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. The anti-apartheid icon is being treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection.