Image copyright AFP Image caption Prayers are held at a mosque in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Wednesday to ask for help as the West African nation confirms two of cases Covid-19. Image copyright AFP Image caption It was an East African bout in Dakar on Saturday at the women’s flyweight box-off for a place in the Olympics, with Kenya’s Christine Ongare (L) beating Uganda’s Catherine Nanziri. Image copyright EPA Image caption South African cricketers celebrate after taking a wicket during a Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final match on Thursday in the Australian capital, Sydney. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Line Banty, an albino TV presenter in Burkina Faso, gets her make-up done on Friday before going on air for her live show. Image copyright AFP Image caption French artist Saype – real name Guillaume Legros – is pictured on Sunday lying on a portion of his vast painting in the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou… Image copyright AFP Image caption It is a giant 200m- (656ft) long fresco, showing a series of interlocked hands, painted with charcoal, chalk and water… Image copyright AFP Image caption The artwork is part of his worldwide project Beyond Walls, which according to AFP, is aimed at promoting togetherness and kindness… Image copyright AFP Image caption The fifth of such works, it can now be seen at Ouagadougou’s Monument of Heroes. Image copyright AFP Image caption A soldier checks the temperature of a visitor to a military hospital in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Friday, the day the first case of coronavirus was detected in the country. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Lawyers huddle together in court in Lagos on Tuesday to discuss the defence strategy for men charged with showing a public display of affection to members of the same sex. Image copyright AFP Image caption Christians take part in an event in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Sunday to call for security amid the Islamist insurgency in the north-east and a wave of kidnappings for ransom nationwide. Image copyright AFP Image caption Muslims in Djenne in central Mali attend Friday prayers at a newly built mosque. Image copyright Reuters Image caption On the same day in Ivory Coast, people at a funeral hold portraits of Barthelemy Laurent Guibahi Ani, a 14-year-old boy who was found dead in the undercarriage of a plane in Paris in January. Image copyright AFP Image caption In Guinea on Sunday, residents of the capital, Conakry, mourn a woman who was reportedly pregnant and died after an altercation with the security forces during an earlier protest against the president. Image copyright AFP Image caption Algerian demonstrators wave the national flag on Friday during an anti-government demonstration in the capital, Algiers. Image copyright EPA Image caption Sites within the Citadel of Saladin in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, are illuminated in the colours of the Chinese flag on Sunday as a gesture of solidarty with China in its fight against the coronavirus. Image copyright AFP Image caption In Cairo on Friday, supporters of Tunisian side Esperance carry flares during a match against Egypt’s Zamalek – for which the football club was fined $10,000 (£7,700). Image copyright EPA Image caption And on the same day, a member of South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters party is all suited and booted for a protest in Johannesburg about the country’s ongoing power cuts. Images: AFP, EPA and Reuters Source: CNN Africa Post navigation Coronavirus: What misinformation has spread in Africa? Blast reported near US embassy in Tunisia’s capital