Africa's week in pictures: 29 March - 4 April 2019

A selection of photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week:

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Models walk the runway on the first day of South Africa Fashion Week, on Wednesday, in designs by Amanda Laird Cherry... Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The Durban-based designer began her career in the 1980s. Image copyrightAFPImage caption Residents of Kenya's Lake Kapnarok and a team from Kenya Wildlife Service battled for six hours on Monday to free this curious young elephant, which along with two others had ventured too far into the mud and ended up stuck. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption On Saturday, Spain's Nadia Erostarbe catches a wave on her way winning the women's World Surf League: Senegal Pro event held in Senegal's capital Dakar. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption On the same day, an elated Hellen Obiri of Kenya wins the Women's Senior Final at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Denmark. Image copyrightNurPhoto/Getty ImagesImage caption On Wednesday, news of Algerian President Abdelaziz's resignation the day before is plastered across newspapers at kiosks like this one in the capital city, Algiers... Image copyrightNurPhoto/Getty ImagesImage caption These Algerian protesters, pictured clashing with blue-helmeted riot police on Friday, were among the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets in recent weeks to demand political reform and an end to the leader's 20-year rule. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption People in take shelter in an abandoned building in the city of Beira in Mozambique, where health workers are racing to halt the spread of cholera after Cyclone Idai hit three weeks ago. Image copyrightAnadolu AgencyImage caption On Monday, this Mozambican girl sits patiently as another child braids her hair at the temporary aid shelter they are now living in because of the devastation wrought by the storm. Image copyrightAFPImage caption This imposing artwork by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, pictured on Monday, is made of jute sacks that have been wrapped around the neo-classical gates of Porta Venezia in Milan. The site is a border between the city's multicultural neighbourhoods. Image copyrightAFPImage caption Tuareg women are seen at a ceremony on Friday in the Libyan desert, in the Awal region close to the border with Tunisia and Algeria... Image copyrightAFPImage caption This man rides his camel as part of the festivities... Image copyrightAFPImage caption This particular Tuareg community fled their home town, Ghadames, after being accused of fighting alongside long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi's forces in 2011. They found refuge here, deeper into the desert.

Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, Nur Photo and Anadolu Agency