Men on camels cross the waters of Lake Chad as a woman washes clothes in Ngouboua on Monday. Refugees fleeing attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria have been crossing into Chad.
In Equatorial Guinea, Cameroonian fans - one wearing giant spectacle frames - gather to greet the Indomitable Lions at the airport in Malabo on Saturday, the day the Africa Cup of Nations kicked off…
Not to be out done, a Burkinabe supporter dons several pairs of glasses on Wednesday whilst watching the Stallions play in Bata, on mainland Equatorial Guinea…
Despite shouts from fans (L), Ghana lost to Senegal in their first match on Monday… two days later, Cameroon, whose defender Frank Bagnack is sporting a star haircut, drew in their first match against Mali…
Ivory Coast, one of the tournament favourites, also drew in their first match. Here the Elephants join hands with other team staff at a training session in Malabo on Thursday…
There have been long queues to get into stadiums in Equatorial Guinea, as health officials take fans' temperatures as part of Ebola prevention measures…
Bushmeat - on sale here outside Bata on Sunday - has been linked to the spread of Ebola. The Nations Cup was supposed to be held in Morocco but the North African nation wanted the tournament to be delayed because of the West Africa Ebola outbreak, so the venue was moved at the last minute to Equatorial Guinea.
On the same day, a hippo bathes in the Serengeti National Park, west of Arusha, in northern Tanzania…
High jinks at the seafront in Stone Town, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, at dusk on Wednesday as people jump take turns jumping into the ocean.
On Monday, Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers are sprayed with water during the annual Epiphany celebrations, known as "Timket", in the capital, Addis Ababa….
Timket commemorates Jesus Christ's baptism in the Jordan River by John the Baptist.
A woman arrives to cast her vote in presidential elections on Tuesday in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, where heavy rain delayed voting in some areas of the country.
Moroccan boxer Eddine Haddioui (L) takes on Cuba's Arlen Lopez in Havana on Friday during the World Series of Boxing. Cuba won 5-0.
The Men's Handball World Championships are taking place in Qatar, where Tunisian fans cheer on their team on Monday.
Malians protest in their thousands on Friday in the capital, Bamako, following the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo.
A redacted section of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's prison memoir - Guantanamo Diary - is shown on Tuesday. The Mauritanian was taken to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2002. No evidence has been found of his involvement in the 9/11 terror plots and a judge has ordered his release, but he remains in detention. It has taken nearly seven years for his lawyers to get his manuscript, in which he describes his years in detention, approved for release.
On the same day, Nigeria's main opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari rides atop a bus as he arrives for a rally in the northern city of Kano...
The next day, the ruling party held a rally in the city for President Goodluck Jonathan. The presidential election is on 14 February, but Nigeria's national security adviser has urged the electoral commission to delay it to allow more time for voter card distribution.
Musicians in South Africa take part in the annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival on Saturday…
The new year festival started several hundred years ago when slaves in the Cape colony were given their only day off.