Africa's top shots: 27 September - 3 October

A selection of the week's best photos from across Africa:

A model dressed up in traditional style poses at a fashion show in Uganda's capital Kampala on Saturday...

Brass and discarded cows horn are turned into wearable art by the Burundi-based designer Margaux Wong.

In this photo taken on Saturday, portraits of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and India's anti-colonial campaigner Mahatma Gandhi are seen at a museum near the South African city of Durban...

The museum had been Gandhi's home in South Africa in the early 1900s. He challenged racial discrimination against Indians in the country, but his reputation is tarnished by racist remarks he made about black Africans.

On Monday, two children lie down to watch television in the courtyard of a house in Segou, central Mali. The children have been given refuge in the house after fleeing jihadist violence in the region.

While this young woman sets up a chocolate elephant at an exhibition on Monday in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan. Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer.

On the same day, Prince Harry views a tree sculpture made from the snares of poachers in Malawi's Liwonde National Park.

Photographers covering the royal tour of southern Africa had this view of a sunset on a flight over Angola.

Meanwhile, Orthodox Christians play instruments at the annual Meskel festival in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday...

The festival commemorates what Orthodox Christians believe to be the finding of the cross that Jesus was crucified on.

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