Africa's week in pictures: 25 June-1 July 2021

Here are some of the best photos from the week across Europe and beyond.On Saturday, Berber women perform at a music festival held in a village high up in the mountains of eastern Algeria.The annual sardine run is an opportunity for fishermen from South Africa's Durban to be hopeful. This happens when large numbers of fish head north along the KwaZulu–Natal coast towards Mozambique.Professional netters in Durban are also hard at work, bringing in huge catches.Friday's Street Workout is a national competition for fitness.A helicopter attempts to keep up with a car participating in Kenya's Safari Rally on the same day.Drivers speeding through the Savannah seem to be completely uninterested in wildlife.On Friday, also, men play a game with bottle tops in Mekelle (Ethiopian capital of Tigray, a war-torn region that rebels captured three days after).On Saturday, a spectator to a boxing match for children in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, snaps a photoThe crowd cheers on the young fighters participating in the open-air event.Later that day, Kennedy Nzechukwu, a Nigerian boxer, poses after he won during an Ultimate Fighting Championship event held in Las Vegas.Christine Mboma, an 18-year-old Namibian, sets a new world record in the 400m race for women in Poland on Wednesday.The fifth stage of the Tour de France is also being ridden by Nicholas Dlamini from South Africa, who makes his debut in this year's race.On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron (L), welcomes George Weah (Liberia's 1995 winner of the renowned French football award, the Ballon d'Or) to the lyse Palace. It is a moving moment.Laurent Gbagbo's supporters in Ivory Coast show their love for the ex-president as they wait to welcome him back to Mama, his village, on Sunday.Presidents of Rwanda and Congolese inspect the areas bordering their countries on Friday, after earthquakes caused by May's volcanic eruption.Residents of Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital look down on Saturday as celebrations to celebrate the country's independence form France take place at a new stadium.A DJ from Kenya plays music to the partygoers in Nairobi's capital city, Nairobi, on the same night.After being sprayed with paint at a student protest against a new antiterror bill, Senegal's capital Dakar, anti-riot police officers took stock Friday.Police officers trying to enforce new coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Uganda attempt to arrest a Kampala vendor the same day.They have more success with a banana vendor, one of over 200 people held in the city's centre that day.A member of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party demanded that the country's regulatory agency approve Covid vaccines from Russia or China during a Friday rally in Pretoria.Copyright for all photos