Bandele Kadjatou, 20, poses in front of a hairdressing salon in a shanty town in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Tuesday. 
A woman has her braided on the same in South Africa's main city,
Johannesburg. Africa's lucrative hair-care industry largely operates in
the informal sector.
The next day, Cameroon's Chantel Biya overshadowed other first ladies
who accompanied their spouses to the historic US-Africa summit in
Washington DC with her outfit.Sure, Cameroon's finance is doing some magic on her.
Hairstyles were also on display on Tuesday in Toronto when Ghana played
hosts Canada in a Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup match. Here, Ghana's
goalkeeper Victoria Agyei, in green, claims the ball in front of
Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan, helping her team to win 1-0.
On the same day, a photograph of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is displayed at
an exhibition in South Africa's Cape Town city. The exhibition depicts
the private and public life of the Nobel laureate, known for his sense
of humour.
Baddest! South Sudan's President Salva Kiir is seen in his trademark cowboy hat at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington.
Ethiopian Mulatu Astatke, who is regarded as the father of Ethio-jazz,
performs on Wednesday at a festival in Lebanon's ancient city of Byblos.
A Christian in Kenya walks through candles lit in solidarity with
Palestinians in Gaza during a peace concert held in Nairobi on
Wednesday...
People in the Moroccan city of Casablanca acted dead to show their solidarity with Palestinians.
Commandos!On Thursday, special forces take part in a parade at the presidential
palace in Abidjan during celebrations to mark the 54th anniversary of
Ivory Coast's independence.
Three men, convicted by a military court in Somalia of killing civilians
and masterminding a deadly attack on the presidential palace, stand
tied to poles shortly before their execution by a firing squad in the
capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday. They were members of militant Islamist
group al-Shabab
Flowers left by relatives of the victims of the Air Algerie flight
AH5017 are seen on Friday at its crash site in northern Mali's Gossi
region. All 118 people aboard died when the aircraft came down on 24
July. Its cockpit voice recorder is damaged and unintelligible, French
investigators say, making it difficult to establish the cause of the
crash
A view through a window looking over Libya's capital, Tripoli, as smoke
fills the sky following a rocket attack by a militia group on Sunday.
Fighting between rival militias competing for power has shattered the
dreams of many Libyans who had hoped that Col Muammar Gaddafi's
overthrow in 2011 would lead to democracy.
A rainbow forms on Tuesday over the Atlantic ocean as storm clouds approach a small farm on the Cape Town peninsula. A series of cold fronts have brought wet, windy and cold weather to the region as the 2014 winter months are recording unusually high precipitation levels.
Residents of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, wade through flooded streets on Sunday. According to state media, 39 people have died and more than 3,000 homes have been destroyed in floods that swept through nearly half of Sudan's states over the annual Ramadan and the Eid holidays.
On Friday, an Egyptian boy dives off Lila Murad rock in Cairo. Summer finally arrived in the region as temperatures soared to 40C for the first time in 2014.
And baby elephants play in a national park near Kenya's capital on
Tuesday. Orphaned elephants are raised in the park and when they mature
are returned to the Tsavo National Park, joining the undomesticated
elephant population.
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