A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionFemale farm labourers pick strawberries in Moroccan countryside on Wednesday as the world marks International Women's Day...Image copyrightAFPImage captionMorocco is the world's fifth largest strawberries exporter, according to the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.Image copyrightEPAImage captionOn the same day, Liberian women perform in Monrovia as part of the celebration of International Women's Day.Image copyrightAFPImage captionIn Kenya, where the UN Secretary-General was visiting, these women in traditional regalia celebrated 8 March in style, singing and dancing...Image copyrightEPAImage captionThese Maasai women danced as they came out to celebrate the day.Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionCarpenter and Cairo resident, Ousta Asmaa, had a message to convey on the occasion: Beyond the cliches, women can do any job they love.Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionJust like Ousta the carpenter, fellow Cairo resident Rowaida Hosny, a butcher, is proud to observe: "We're all working hard like men, and I taught my sons how to be butchers."Image copyrightEPAImage captionFruit vendor Djenebou Zerbo in Abidjan testifies that women have long played a dominant role in agriculture in Ivory Coast.Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionAs festivities marking Women's Day went on around the world, these Zimbabweans queued up at a bank in Harare to withdraw money.Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionAnd this cotton farmer might not have paused to acknowledge the day as he wheeled his cart at a market in a village near Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.Image copyrightEPAImage captionOn Tuesday, Ghana marked 60 years since its independence from the UK...Image copyrightEPAImage captionTraditional performers flexed their muscles to mark the big birthday...Image copyrightAFPImage captionStudents from different schools paraded during the celebrations...Image copyrightAFPImage captionWhile soldiers took part in a military parade on the occasion...Image copyrightEPAImage captionThis member of the Ghana navy paused in respect and to reflect...Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionBurkina Faso film director Apolline Traore poses on Sunday with the three prizes received a day earlier for her last movie Frontiere during the Panafrican Film Festival, Fespaco.Image copyrightAFPImage captionAlgerian firefighters on Tuesday show their skills during a ceremony marking the launch of a safety project.