Passion, pilots and panache: Africa's top shots

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent:

Toyin Adedokun/AFP Members of the Egbe Obaneye Obinrin parade to pay homage to the King, Awuja Ile of Ijebuland, during the annual Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu Ode on June 18, 2024. Ojude Oba festival is an ancient festival celebrated by the Yoruba people of Ijebu Ode, a town in Ogun State Nigeria. This annual festival usually takes place the third day after Eid El Kabir to pay homage and show respect to the King the Awujale of Ijebuland.

Women wear matching finery for the Egbe Obaneye Obinrin parade in Nigeria on Tuesday...

Toyin Adedokun/AFP A general view of a customised shoe worn by members of the Egbe Bobasete during the annual Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu Ode on June 18, 2024. Ojude Oba festival is an ancient festival celebrated by the Yoruba people of Ijebu Ode, a town in Ogun State Nigeria. This annual festival usually takes place the third day after Eid El Kabir to pay homage and show respect to the King the Awujale of Ijebuland. (Photo by TOYIN ADEDOKUN / AFP)

The annual event is in homage to a Yoruba king, called Awuja Ile of Ijebuland.

Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Girls in a dance group waits to perform on Vilakazi street on June 16, 2024 in Soweto, South Africa. The Soweto Uprising began on June 16, 1976, as a peaceful student protest against the enforcement of Afrikaans in schools. The police and army's response with tear gas and bullets led to violent clashes, resulting in the deaths of 400 to 700 people, many of them children. The event galvanized international opposition to apartheid and is commemorated annually in South Africa as Youth Day.

On Sunday in South Africa, dancers wait to perform on what is the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising...

Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Girls pose for pictures at a mural after visiting the Hector Pieterson Museum on June 16, 2024 in Soweto, South Africa. The Soweto Uprising began on June 16, 1976, as a peaceful student protest against the enforcement of Afrikaans in schools. The police and army's response with tear gas and bullets led to violent clashes, resulting in the deaths of 400 to 700 people, many of them children. The event galvanized international opposition to apartheid and is commemorated annually in South Africa as Youth Day.

People are marking this important event in apartheid-era history, when a police massacre of peaceful student demonstrators galvanised opposition to the racist regime.

Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP Former Ivorian football player Didier Drogba (R) embraces Nigerian singer Burna Boy (L) during the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2025 menswear ready to wear presentation as part of Paris Fashion Week in Paris on 18 June.

Nigerian musician Burna Boy and Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba show each other love at the Louis Vuitton fashion show in France on Tuesday.

Gerald Anderson/Getty Images People gather to stage a demonstration against the Financial Bill for 2024 and tax increases as they march towards the parliament building in Nairobi, Kenya on 18 June.

On the same day in Nairobi, Kenya, protesters oppose a new tax bill and are arrested in their dozens in a police crackdown that rights groups condemn.

Darren Stewart/Getty Images MK members during the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) rally on June 17, 2024 in Umzumbe, South Africa. The sub region will hold by-elections on the 19th of June.

In South Africa, a new coalition government has been agreed after the ANC failed to win an outright majority for the first time in 30 years. Opposition MK party supporters, pictured, have called for fresh elections.

Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Eswatini King Mswati III arrives with his spouse to the presidential inauguration ceremony at Union Buildings on June 19, 2024, in Tshwane, South Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) party was forced to form a coalition government after failing to receive a majority vote in the recent general election. President Ramaphosa was sworn in as the president for South Africa by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre.

Two days later foreign heads of state, including Eswatini King Mswati III and one of his wives, attend Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration for a second term as president of South Africa.

Ugur Yildirim/Getty Images At the Shuvvara Tannery, which is the lifeblood of the leather tanning craft in Morocco, leather has been colored using traditional methods for centuries on 18 June.

Workers use these dye pits at the Shuvvara Tannery in Morroco to add colour to leather goods on Tuesday.

Issouf Sanogo/AFP A firefighter carries a child as he walks in flood water in Cocody Angre in Abidjan on June 14, 2024 after torrential rains. Flooding and landslips have killed five people in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's biggest city, after heavy downpours, the fire service said on Friday. Roads were cut off as the rains fell on Thursday afternoon in most areas of the city with a population of six million.

On Friday, a boy is carried to safety after deadly flooding and landslides in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Mohamed Elshahed/Getty Images Orthodox Christians take part in mass to celebrate the 'Festival of the Virgin Mary', which is accepted as the 'ascension day of Virgin Mary' in the Christian belief, at Coptic Orthodox Church in Asyut, Egypt on 18 June.

Orthodox Christians mark the Festival of the Virgin Mary in Asyut, Egypt, on Tuesday.

Mehmet Yilmaz Guldas/Getty Images A giant tortoise, caring by 85-year-old collector Abdullah Ali Sharif, is seen at the Abdullah Ali Sharif Museum in Harar, Ethiopia on June 17, 2024. Sharif, exhibits artefacts from Islamic and Ottoman history, as well as weapons from the Second World War.

The day before, 85-year-old Abdullah Ali Sharif feeds a tortoise outside his home in Harar, eastern Ethiopia, which doubles as a museum for Islamic and Ottoman history.