Africa's week in pictures: 8-14 October 2021

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Kenya's Diana Kipyogei is crowned after winning the Boston Marathon on Monday.

This mural of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who turned 90 last week, is restored on Friday in Cape Town, after it was defaced with a racist slur.

This fan makes her allegiances clear at South Africa's football World Cup qualifier against Ethiopia on Tuesday, which Bafana Bafana won 1-0.

This plaque marks the entrance to the Foumban Royal Palace in western Cameroon...

On Monday, 28-year-old Mfonrifum Nabil Mbombo Njoya was inaugurated as the new Sultan of Bamoun.

Spectators watch the Rally of Morocco in the Merzouga region on Sunday.

Activists turned up on Tuesday to listen to proceedings at Botswana's top court, where the government is seeking to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalised homosexuality.

On Sunday, 40 days after a massacre at the Chena Teklehaymanot Church in Ethiopia's Amhara region, personal items belonging to the dead sit on a windowsill. Amhara officials say Tigrayan forces are to blame, which they in turn deny.

A herd marches through Kenya's Amboseli National Park, where there has been a baby-elephant boom.

Somali marine forces patrol coastal waters on Wednesday, following a legal ruling on the disputed sea border with Kenya that largely favoured Somalia.

A flock of birds takes to the sky as a police helicopter flies over a parade in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Saturday.

The next day in South Africa, people take part in the One Sky One World International Kite Fly.

And on Thursday in Mauritius, a man washes his month-old puppy in the Indian Ocean.

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