Parties, pyres and pharaohs: Africa's top shots

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

On Wednesday, women harvest seaweed on the shores of Zanzibar.

These boys watch a biking contest in South Africa's Alabama township on Saturday...

Beninese great Angelique Kidjo is joined on stage by Brazilian singer Flavia Coelho at a concert in southern France on Sunday.

Strong winds help spread forest fires in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday.

In Lagos on Friday, Richard Muzaan of Nigeria triumphs over Burkina Faso's Israël Mano to take the MMC lightweight title at the African Knockout Championship.

Moroccan writer and artist Tahar Ben Jelloun admires his paintings at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat on Tuesday.

Gideon Appah, a Ghanaian painter based in Accra, poses alongside his pieces on display at a gallery in France on Monday.

In Kenya on Friday, security forces look on at the ceremonial burning of some of the 7,000 illegal firearms regional forces say they have seized from criminals.

The Catholic Church's new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, holds an audience with Madagascar's bishop in the Vatican on Monday.

Chinese tourists visit what is billed as a life-size replica of Morocco's famously colourful city of Chefchaouen. It has been recreated in an outdoor park in northern China.

And on Friday, street vendors cater to passers-by in Togo's capital, Lomé.

From the BBC in Africa this week: