Heatwaves and hand-to-hand combat: Africa’s top shots
Written by BBC on July 4, 2025
Days earlier in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, children pick balloons at Magic Land…
The theme park opened almost two decades ago.
Contestants get ready backstage before the Mr and Miss Africa Albinism pageant in Zimbabwe on Saturday.
Ons Jabeur of Tunisia keeps her eyes squarely on the ball during the first day of the Wimbledon tennis championships, in the UK on Monday.
Juicy watermelons are for sale at this vendor’s stall in Nakuru, Kenya, on Wednesday. Food prices keep rising as the country grapples with a cost-of-living crisis.
On Friday in Abuja, Faisal Ibrahim aka Dan Yellow Tula poses for the camera. He is a Dambe fighter – a combat sport with a long history in northern Nigeria…
The next day in the same city, fighters face off in the African Warrior Dambe World Series.
On Sunday, Nigerian singer-songwriter Rema and his entourage arrive at the Jacquemus show at Paris Fashion Week in France.
The day before in Lagos, Nigeria, people enjoy a Pride month club night called Be. Organisers say their goal is for clubbers to “merge soul and body with rhythm and just be”.
Celebrated South African singer Thandiswa Mazwai performs on stage at Johannesburg’s Lyric Theatre on Sunday.
And the following day, surfers from around the world compete in the Ballito Pro on South Africa’s eastern coast off KwaZulu-Natal.
