On Friday, a displaced woman in Somalia looks out of her ruined makeshift house outside the capital, Mogadishu, after torrential rain. For more on Africa's week, tune into BBC Weekend Network Africa.
Children play football on the outskirts of Manzini in Swaziland where nearly 40% of adults are unemployed.
On Wednesday, thousands of Swazis protest in Manzini at the amount of money being spent to celebrate Swaziland's 40th year of independence and the king's 40th birthday this coming weekend...
Algerian film director Tariq Teguia waves to photographers before the screening of his movie Gabbla (Inland) at the Venice International Film Festival on Thursday.
An illegal African migrant awaits medical attention at a beach on Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands on Tuesday after making the treacherous - and often deadly - crossing from Africa.
On the same day, Ivory Coast's ex-President Konan Bedie waves to supporters. The country, split in two six years ago in an armed rebellion, has reunited and goes to polls at the end of November.
A South African fan gives the thumbs up after his team - the Springboks - beat the Australian Wallabies during their Tri Nations rugby union match in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The next day, relatives of those accused of killing a US diplomat and his driver in Sudan earlier this year shout slogans outside a courthouse in the capital, Khartoum, before the beginning of the trial.
Residents of the drought-stricken southern Ethiopia town of Boricha wait for their names to be called out to receive their 10kg food ration on Saturday
