BBC Africa

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

The 65-year-old was appointed interim ruler of South Africa's Zulu nation in March.

Experts believe the woman was aged between 20 and 30 when she died with her unborn child.

Zimbabwe's Langton Rusere becomes cricket's first black African to umpire a Test match.

Former marathon world record holder Tegla Loroupe says athletes using running shoe technology are "cheating" and it is "almost like doping".

South Sudan men's football coach Ashu Cyprian Besong says the team are progressing a decade after being created.

His two-year extension provoked three days of clashes and forced up to 100,000 from their homes.

Poaching and habitat encroachment are threatening Watamu's green turtles who are on the verge of being endangered.

Kenyan victims of 1998 US embassy bombing lament exclusion from $335m compensation deal.

Two Spaniards, an Irish national and a soldier are missing after an anti-poaching patrol attack.

What role, in the Sahel region, does Chad have since the killing of President Idriss Deby?

Tegla Loroupe, head of the Olympic Refugee Team, says some athletes 'cannot' be chosen to compete in Tokyo this year.

This Nigerian community still practices trade by barter, where goods are exchanged instead of money.

France says the tests were carried out in uninhabited areas but local residents beg to differ.

How has Kelechi Iheanacho turned from the fringes of the Leicester team to become the top goalscorer in recent weeks?

Police say the gang used bitcoins to carry out illegal financial transactions on the dark web.

South African cricket looks set to avoid an international ban as internal wrangles within the sport's governing body are resolved.

Bribery and an increase in accidents mean it is high time to "clean up" the sector, the government says.

Islamist militants have repeatedly staged attacks near the $20bn (£14.6bn) gas liquification plant.

"We are waging war" against the rebels, Chad's ruling military junta says, after an offer of talks.