22nd February 2020 in In Pictures In_pictures Africa’s week in pictures: 24-30 January 2020 In_pictures A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent: Image copyright Reuters Image caption Fightfighters in Nigeria work to extinguish a blaze at Balogun market in the city of Lagos on Wednesday… Image copyright AFP Image caption The sprawling market area is known for its fabric and clothing stalls. Image copyright Reuters Image caption On Saturday, a food vendor, known in Nigeria as a “Mama Put”, sits by a stall in the capital, Abuja. Mama Put is one of 29 Nigerian-English words added to the Oxford English Dictionary this month… Image copyright Reuters Image caption On the same day, words used in Nigeria that were already in the dictionary are seen on a Scrabble board in Abuja… Image copyright Reuters Image caption The word game is popular in Nigeria and here players in the capital face each other at a Scrabble event. Image copyright EPA Image caption On Wednesday, a health worker screens passengers after their arrival at the international airport in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Image copyright EPA Image caption A Kenyan farmer on Friday holds up a desert locust, which has turned yellow – meaning it has reached sexual maturity. Locust swarms are sweeping across the region, leaving devastation in their wake. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Hymns are sung at a special service on Sunday at St Stephen’s Anglican church in Nairobi, attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a visit to the country. Image copyright AFP Image caption On Tuesday, friends of prominent Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni carry the 36-year-old’s coffin – honouring her fight for gender equality in the Muslim country where women often do not take part in funerals. Image copyright EPA Image caption Replica statues of pharaonic Queen Nefertiti are seen at the workshop in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Monday. Image copyright AFP Image caption Children enjoy a ride at an amusement park in the Libyan town of Tajura, near the capital, Tripoli, on Friday… Image copyright AFP Image caption Four days a later, a Libyan breeder of Arabian horses trains a steed at his farm in the eastern city of Benghazi. Image copyright AFP Image caption Villagers flee spiralling violence in northern Burkina Faso on Monday. Aid agencies say the number of people displaced there increased tenfold last year – to more than 500,000 people. Image copyright EPA Image caption The next day, motorcyclists protest about acute petrol shortages in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, as they queue at a garage. Image copyright EPA Image caption A farm worker in a tobacco field in Zimbabwe carries freshly harvested leaves on Wednesday. Image copyright Reuters Image caption The next day, a man uses his mobile phone at the launch of an MTN mobile money service in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg… Image copyright EPA Image caption And also on Thursday, Johannesburg resident and mountain climber Saray Khumalo, the first black woman to climb Everest, is pictured overlooking the city. Images from AFP, EPA and Reuters