A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent:
Image copyrightEPAImage caption Musicians play from their balcony on Wednesday in the Egyptian city of Giza during a curfew to stop the spread of coronavirus. Image copyrightAFPImage caption On Monday, a philosophy teacher in Burkina Faso is filmed teaching a class for final year school pupils. A TV channel is broadcasting classes every day as schools and universities are closed because of the virus. Image copyrightEPAImage caption On the same day in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, people read news about the pandemic on a blackboard. Image copyrightEPAImage caption A man cycles with his child though a settlement outside Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, on Tuesday. The country is also in lockdown because of coronavirus. Image copyrightAFPImage caption On Wednesday, workers disinfect a stretch of road in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19. Image copyrightAFPImage caption On the same day in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, a man poses for a photograph in an unusual mask… Image copyrightAFPImage caption Uganda is also in lockdown, but some food markets remain open. Here a Red Cross volunteer on Wednesday measures the temperature of a man entering one in Kampala… Image copyrightAFPImage caption After being screened, shoppers are then marked with a pen to show they have been checked. Image copyrightReutersImage caption In Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan, a woman makes liquid soap on Wednesday. One of the best preventative measures against coronavirus is to wash one’s hands with soap and water. Image copyrightReutersImage caption A fish seller calls for customers at a food market in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Monday hours before the start of a coronavirus lockdown there. Image copyrightReutersImage caption On Saturday, a baguette seller arranges her loaves at a market in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there has been panic buying. Image copyrightEPAImage caption People wait to be shaved at a barbershop ahead of the start of Kenya’s coronavirus evening curfew in the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday. Image copyrightAFPImage caption Tunisians demanding financial aid to cope with their lockdown protest outside a government building in the town of Mnihla on Monday. Image copyrightAFPImage caption Moroccans watch from their window in the capital, Rabat, on Friday as officers instruct people outside to observe lockdown rules and get off the streets. Image copyrightAFPImage caption An officer in South Africa fires rubber bullets to impose a lockdown in the township of Alexandra on Tuesday… Image copyrightReutersImage caption On the same day, shoppers in the South African city of Durban sit on their trolleys as they queue to get into a supermarket… Image copyrightEPAImage caption A masked man walks along a street in central Johannesburg on Saturday, the second day of South Africa’s strict shutdown. Image copyrightReutersImage caption In Ghana on Monday, a man takes a snooze on a deserted beach in the capital, Accra, which is also subject to coronavirus restrictions. Image copyrightPA MediaImage caption And researchers from Morocco, the UK and the US released this illustration of a pterosaur on Saturday – a flying reptile they have discovered lived in the Sahara 100 million years ago.
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