Africa's top shots: 30 April-6 May 2021Published7 May 2021Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingA selection of the week's best photos from across the continent:Image source, ReutersImage caption, A girl ponders a chess move in Makoko, a slum in the Nigerian city of Lagos, on Wednesday...Image source, EPAImage caption, In the city on Saturday, a woman sells kola nuts for people attending a workers' day parade.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Two girls check out a mobile phone on Friday during a religious gathering for Orthodox Good Friday in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa...Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, In the city the next day, Orthodox Christians flock to a poultry market to buy a bird to prepare for an Easter feast.Image source, AFPImage caption, War veterans in Addis Ababa mark Patriots Day on Wednesday, which is a national holiday in Ethiopia that commemorates the end of the Italian occupation in 1941.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, A Jewish pilgrim lights a candle at Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba on Friday…Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The annual pilgrimage includes the age-old tradition of writing prayers on eggs.Image source, EPAImage caption, A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at a Covid-19 centre in Tunisia's capital, Tunis, on Monday.Image source, AFPImage caption, A Libyan dives into the sea from rocks in the capital, Tripoli, on Friday.Image source, AFPImage caption, On the same day, swallows swoop by a bridge over the Niger River in Mali's capital, Bamako. The area is the site of a Sufi community in the city.Image source, AFPImage caption, Francis Ngannou, the new world champion of heavyweight mixed martial arts who is known as "The Predator", parades through the Cameroonian city of Bafoussam on Saturday on a triumphant return home.Image source, AFPImage caption, After milking some camels, a woman carefully pours the liquid into a plastic container in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, on Tuesday.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Zimbabwean sculptor David Ngwerume poses with his work of a woman wearing a Covid-19 face mask in the capital, Harare, on Friday.Image source, EPAImage caption, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan prepares to address Kenya's parliament on Wednesday wearing a face mask - something she doesn't use at home...Image source, EPAImage caption, There is much pomp and ceremony during her state visit, though the Kenya police band gets drenched waiting to perform on Wednesday.Image source, AFPImage caption, In the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Saturday, a man is arrested during a protest demanding better living conditions for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, On the same day in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, people gather for the funeral ceremony for Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan, the secretary general of the Islamic Movement and an ally of ousted President Omar al-Bashir. He had been in custody awaiting trial for corruption.Image source, AFPImage caption, A man in northern Uganda holds a radio on Thursday to listen to the International Criminal Court's sentencing of Dominic Ongwen, a child soldier-turned-rebel commander, to 25 years in jail.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, It is all glitz and glamour at a South Africa Fashion Week event in Midrand on Saturday where Nomuzi Mabena, a rapper and TV presenter better known as Moozlie, poses for the cameras.Image source, ReutersImage caption, And more beauty is on display on Tuesday as the moon is seen behind a mosque's minaret decorated for Ramadan in Egypt's capital, Cairo.All photos subject to copyright.Related TopicsPhotographyAfricaAround the BBCAfrica Today podcasts