Africa's top shots: 7-13 May 2021

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

Children in Morocco's southern town of Tarfaya take free surfing lessons on Tuesday.

In Senegal on Friday, worshippers pray at the the Mosque of the Divinity in the capital city Dakar.

On Wednesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, this girl is among Muslims marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The next day in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, congregants also mark Eid al-Fitr...

The morning's prayers are followed by henna designs...

Days earlier in Cairo in Egypt, this boy is seen in a moment of contemplation during evening prayers in Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque.

And the traditional iftar snack of dates is shared between members of Tafara Jamat Masjid in Zimbabwe's capital on Thursday.

A volunteer walks pasts rows of bottled water in Meskel square in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, before of thousands of Muslims gathered for iftar - the evening meal ending each day's fast during Ramadan.

On Monday in Nigeria's capital Abuja a man carries a brick of cement at a manufacturing site.

The day before, Senegal-born Souleymane Cissokho celebrates his win over Kieron Conway at a super-welterweight title fight in Texas, the US.

On the same day, a 2nd Century Persephone statue is handed over to the Libyan embassy in the British capital London. The artefact had been seized from a Unesco-protected site in Libya and later smuggled into the UK where it was intercepted by border police.

On Saturday, children cool off in the outskirts of Cairo...

Many took to the cool waters of the River Nile on a hot day.

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