Africa’s top shots: 29 August-4 September 2025


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

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters A teenager in a pink T-shirt and navy trousers with bare feet throws a bucket of water at a girl in a short skirt who has her back to the camera. Another boy pours a bottle of water over her outside a gate in Protea North, Johannesburg in South Africa - Monday 1 September 2025Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Children in Johannesburg take no prisoners on Monday – 1 September – the day South Africans welcome the official start of spring by engaging in water fights.

Kim Ludbrook/EPA/Shutterstock A pair of legs in jeans stick out from under a classic car on show with others at the annual Wheels at the Vaal event in Vaalpark, near Sasolburg, South Africa - Sunday 31 August 2025.Kim Ludbrook/EPA/Shutterstock

It is not going to plan for this participant at a classic car show on Sunday near South Africa’s city of Sasolburg in Free State province.

Marie Jeanne Munyerenkana/EPA/Shutterstock Three primary school students in uniform, including blue shirts, attend class at the Rutoboko Primary School. Their backs are to the camera and they are seated at wooden desks; one pupil is writing his name on a pile of exercise books. There is a green blackboard in front of them. Taken in Goma, DR Congo - Monday 1 September 2025. Marie Jeanne Munyerenkana/EPA/Shutterstock

Monday heralds the start of a new academic year for these junior school pupils in Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has been under the rule of Rwandan-back M23 rebels since January.

Gerald Anderson/Anadolu/Getty Images Several head of cattle are seen at a drinking trough in Bisil, Kenya - where there is a tap from which a girl is filling yellow jerrycans. Other girls, one in a pink checked shawl, are also waiting with their containers - Friday 29 August 2025.Gerald Anderson/Anadolu/Getty Images

Animals are taken to a watering trough on Friday in the remote Kenyan town of Bisil in Kajiado county, where the community is struggling to cope with a drought.

Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty Images A beekeeper carries a hive as another holds a smoke pot on a slope with tufts of grass of Morocco's Atlas Mountains - Friday 29 August 2025/Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty Images

On the same day, beekeepers use smoke to calm bees as they inspect hives on the slopes of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains…

Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty Images A flock of sheep seen walking up the rough terrain of a rocky mountain - guided by a shepherd in the area of Aït Attou Moussa located in the Tilemi commune of the Tinghir region, Morocco - Saturday 30 August 2025.Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty Images

Nearby in the area of Aït Attou Moussa on Saturday, a shepherd herds his flock up a rocky mountainside.

Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters An orchestra from Burkina Faso - its members dressed in green, red and yellow with yellow hats -march and perform in Moscow's Red Square. They are playing a mixture of wind, woodwind and percussion instruments. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

On Sunday, the Presidential Orchestra of Burkina Faso performs at the closing ceremony of Russia’s international military music festival in Moscow’s Red Square.

Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images A man running in a white T-shirt, black shorts and black socks jogs along a beach. Behind him can be seen piles of plastic waste washed up by the waves - Conakry, Guinea - Saturday 30 August 2025.Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images

In Guinea’s capital, Conakry, a man goes for a run on Saturday along a beach where loads of washed up rubbish can be seen…

Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images An altar boy dressed in white swings a thurible followed by other Catholic faithful and clergy also in white as they head into church at Saint Augustin of Taouyah Parish in Conakry, Guinea - Sunday 31 August 2025.Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images

The next day, a Catholic altar boy in the mainly Muslim country wields an incense burner as he leads a procession into Sunday Mass in Conakry.

Feisal Omar/Reuters A young camel herder stands against a blue sky wearing an orange turban and orange necklace over a khaki jacket surrounded by camels - Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday 2 September 2025.Feisal Omar/Reuters

On Tuesday, a herder stands with his camels in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, where – in observance of a Muslim tradition – 1,200 of the animals were reportedly due to be slaughtered to mark the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday this week.

Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images/Getty Images A woman in glasses hugs Ntombizodwa Samane, the mother of Amantle Samane who wears a yellow headscarf and pink fleece over a yellow, pink, green and orange swirly striped top. Ms Samane holds her hand to her mouth and has her eyes closed in the Johannesburg High Court, South Africa - Monday 1 September 2025.Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images/Getty Images

In a Johannesburg court in South Africa on Monday, the mother of a six-year-old girl who was kidnapped, raped and murdered last year breaks down as the killer is sentenced to two life terms…

Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images Two girls, whose faces cannot be fully seen, comfort each other at a funeral in Cape Town. They are wearing black with the photo of Esmine Francke in a lilac fleece on the front of their long-sleeved T-shirts. The words 'Being Brave' are written over the fleece - Saturday 30 August 2025.Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images

And at a funeral on Saturday, children wear shirts with photos of Esmine Francke, a 12-year-old girl killed in the crossfire of a gang fight on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa.

KB Mpofu/Reuters Several models walk up a catwalk mainly dress in black clothes with white face paint designs at the  I Wear My Culture fashion show in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Saturday 30 August 2025.KB Mpofu/Reuters

On the same day in neighbouring Zimbabwe, the city of Bulawayo hosts the I Wear My Culture fashion show – in which 16 young designers show off their creations. These models wear outfits from the collection for Zimbabwe’s Ndebele people…

KB Mpofu/Reuters A model in a long pink dress with a strip big collar on the catwalk being photographed by members of the audience at the  I Wear My Culture fashion show in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Saturday 30 August 2025.KB Mpofu/Reuters

This dress is from a collection representing the Venda people, who are from South Africa’s Limpopo province that borders Zimbabwe.

Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto/Getty Images Using phones two female content creators (one in a white top with red painted nails and the other in black outfit - both with plaited hair) record footage at a match between Ikorodu City FC and El-Kanemi Warriors FC at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan in Lagos, Nigeria - Sunday 31 August 2025. Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto/Getty Images

And two female content creators are seen at work on Sunday at a stadium in Lagos on the second weekend of this season’s Nigeria Premier Football League.

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