Africa's top shots: 10-16 February 2017
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
Female inmates at Kenya's Langata prison in the capital, Nairobi, cheer after receiving flowers at events to mark Valentine's Day on Tuesday...
It was part of an event dubbed "love behind bars", which included a fashion parade by the prisoners...
Valentine's Day is also big in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan where this man arranges a bouquet at a flower shop on Monday...
These revellers in Nigeria celebrate the day for lovers by hitting the dance floor in Maiduguri, a city more usually associated with the Islamist insurgency.
On his visit to The Gambia on Tuesday, the UK's foreign minister Boris Johnson (C) acts the part when pictured with traditional wrestlers.
For a second year in a row, Kenyan athlete Abraham Kipton wins the Lagos City Marathon in Nigeria, which was held on Saturday.
On the same day, men from the Pokot ethnic group stand around a lake in central Kenya with their cattle…
Three days later further north in Kenya, a Turkana woman waits behind a tree to get water from a nearby borehole. The country is suffering from a severe drought.
The Hindu Kavadi ceremony is celebrated in South Africa's city of Johannesburg on Sunday when people show their devotion by piercing pins through their tongues and skin.
The next day, a woman sells sweets to children at school during a break time in Masiphumelele township in the South African city of Cape Town.
Libyan children play in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square on Wednesday ahead of celebrations to mark the sixth anniversary of the start of the uprising...
Workers hang flags at the square on the same day in preparation for the events. Long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was killed eight months later...
The country is still beset by chaos as rival militias vie for power. In Libya's second city of Benghazi on Sunday demonstrators burn an Italian flag during a protest against Italy's alleged support for an armed group in Misrata.
On the same day, a man rides his bicycle through the Kasbah souk in the old town of Tunisia's capital, Tunis.
Women in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, mould soap to sell on Thursday from waste soap powder they bring in from neighbouring Ivory Coast.
Sailors in Monrovia on Saturday take part in a parade to mark the the 60th anniversary of the country's armed forces.
And South Sudanese model Nykhor Paul, branded the "Melanin Queen" by some magazines, takes part in New York Fashion week on Tuesday. She has made headlines for accusing the fashion industry of racism.
Images courtesy of AP, AFP, EPA, Marika Tsolakis, Reuters