29 December 2017
Africa’s year in pictures 2017
A selection of the best photos from
across and about Africa this year:
Image copyrightDANIEL IRUNGU/EPAat Spurgeons Academy, which provides free education to more
than 425 orphans and less privileged children from Kibera in
Nairobi, Kenya.
Image copyrightEPAfootball on a beach in the West Point neighbourhood of
Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.
Image copyrightAFPZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday
is decorated with his portrait by his staff in February.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESKuluba the same month. The UN says more than one
million South Sudanese have taken refuge in Uganda since
civil war erupted in December 2013, with at least 100,000
entering this year.
Image copyrightAFPa major modelling agency, Somali-American Halima Aden
takes to the catwalk in the Italian city of Milan in February.
Image copyrightAFPCongolese superstar Papa Wemba pay tribute to
the musician a year after his death. He was the king
of the sapeurs and founder of “La Sape” (Society of
Partygoers and Elegant People).
Image copyrightEPAmotorists in Salima, Malawi with a spot of
roasted mouse.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESduring the Women Single 1 Round at the Table Tennis
World Championship in Germany.
Image copyrightAFPmotocross rider wows the crowd at celebrations for
Lagos state’s 50th anniversary in Nigeria.
Image copyrightREUTERSon near the constitutional court in Johannesburg, where
there had been a march to demand the removal of
President Jacob Zuma.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESmake their daily catch off the coast of Benghazi.
Image copyrightMERCY JUMA/BBC“colour run” – a global phenomenon borrowed
from the Hindu Holi festival in which participants
throw colored powder at each other.
Image copyrightREUTERSthe month, a photographer escapes a spray of a different
kind as he braves the storm to capture raging waves.
Image copyrightREUTERScapital, proudly displays the various spare parts for sale
on an outside wall. Business has been booming in
Mogadishu since African Union and government troops
drove militant Islamists out of the city.
Image copyrightAFPto the presidential palace in the commercial capital,
Abidjan, including this girl pictured at the vice-president’s
desk. She was among 51 school pupils to be honoured for
achieving top grades in their end-of-year exams.
Image copyrightRODERICK MACLEOD/BBCofficial Chris Msando is seen attending a Requiem Mass
on Thursday in her husband’s memory, with their
youngest son by her side. Mr Msando, who was in charge
of Kenya’s computerised voting system, was killed just
days before the general election.
Image copyrightREUTERSSierra Leone’s devastating mudslide waits outside the
university hospital in Freetown in August. Officials said
400 people were known to have died, and some 3,000
people were left homeless in what became a
humanitarian emergency.
Image copyrightAFPLuvo Manyonga captivates the crowd with his gold
medal-winning performance at the IAAF World
Championships in London. Four years previously he
was addicted to a drug similar to crystal meth called
“tik”. Now, as the men’s long jump champion he is
looking ahead to his next goal of beating the world record.
Image copyrightREUTERSpalace before the start of the Durbar festival in September,
part of Eid celebrations in northern Nigeria.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESTawardros II, delivers morning Mass to the faithful
the previous day at St Mina Cathedral in Sydney,
Australia. The country is home to the third largest
Coptic community outside Egypt.
Image copyrightREUTERSLake Tana in northern Ethiopia. The invasive plant has
threatened the livelihoods of many fishermen in East Africa.
Image copyrightPAon the same day that the Fairtrade Foundation announces
its first shipment of gold from Uganda.
Image copyrightEPAthe Supreme Court in Nairobi where Chief Justice David
Maraga ruled in favour of the opposition’s petition to
annul the results of August’s presidential elections over
voting irregularities. The road names on the sign were
temporarily altered by the public in a tribute to the judge
and to lawyer James Orengo, who brought the case. The
repeat presidential vote was later won by Uhuru Kenyatta
amid low voter turnout after his challenger Raila Odinga
urged supporters to boycott the poll.
Image copyrightAFPDemocratic Republic of Congo, poses next to a wax
sculpture of himself at its unveiling in France’s capital,
Paris, in October.
Image copyrightREUTERSconcentration during the Sudan National Chess
Championship in preparation for the Olympics,
in the capital, Khartoum.
Image copyrightREUTERSThis little boy prays ahead of his primary school exams
in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
Image copyrightAFPMosque of Sale near the capital, Rabat, to pray for rain.
The king has issued a royal decree for citizens to pray
for rainfall and end the dry spell troubling Morocco’s
agricultural sector.
Image copyrightAFPpictured in a courtyard at a detention centre on the
outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. That month,
footage of slave markets where African migrants hoping
to reach Europe are instead sold to Libyans for unpaid
labour and sexual exploitation has caused outrage.
Image copyrightAFPNovember, President Robert Mugabe faced impeachment
on charges that included allowing his wife “to usurp
constitutional power” in what many saw as her quest to
succeed her elderly husband as president. Some say that
blaming Mrs Mugabe for Zimbabwe’s crisis is
misogynistic and merely lets Mr Mugabe off the hook.
Image copyrightAFPChristmas feeds a stingray during a show at an
aquarium in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban.
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