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Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025

March 7, 2025
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A collection of the date’s best possible footage from around the African continent and past:

Esa Alexander / Reuters A woman wears a rainbow-patterned hat and pink-petal sunglasses.Esa Alexander / Reuters

A reveller sees the dazzling facet of generation on the Cape The city Pleasure party in South Africa on Saturday.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Luc Gnago / Reuters A girl wears a blue dress and carries a calabash.Luc Gnago / Reuters

4-year-old Maëlis Kouakou clothes up for Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Marco Longari / AFP Girls wearing matching yellow and pink ra-ra skirts stand in a line.Marco Longari / AFP

The kids’s parade will get going on the Luanda Carnival in Angola on Saturday…

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Julio Pacheco Ntela / AFP A drum major leads a procession of men and women dressed in purple, red and white pagentry. They all dance a wide-stance dance in time.Julio Pacheco Ntela / AFP

The theme for this 12 months’s carnival is 50 years of Angolan self government.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Hector Quintanar / Getty Images A man holds a brightly painted wooden mask carved to look like a bull's head.Hector Quintanar / Getty Pictures

On Tuesday, crowd of African descent get able for the Carnival of Coyolillo in Mexico. Their dances are described as being alike to others present in Mozambique, Mali and Zambia.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Emmanuel Adegboye / EPA A man stands next to a large woven tapestry in white, yellow blue, orange and black horizontal stripes.Emmanuel Adegboye / EPA

At the similar while in Ibadan, Nigeria, artwork historian and dressmaker Olushola Olajobi displays a few of his items made out of misuse merchandise.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Olympia de Maismont / AFP A woman stands in a courtyard surrounded by dresses she has designed. They are pattered and have mostly neutral tones.Olympia de Maismont / AFP

The nearest while in Lagos, model dressmaker Florentina Agu shows a few of her creations.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Olympia de Maismont / AFP A woman dressed in a security vest and chinos stands at the gates to private residence.Olympia de Maismont / AFP

Days previous in the similar town, Omobolaji Oyeleye, who runs a non-public safety corporate, stands on the gates at certainly one of her paintings websites within the upmarket Ikoyi suburb.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Abdul Bah Jalanzo / EPA Men wave Liberia's flag at police, who stand across the road from them. In the middle are yellow taxis.Abdul Bah Jalanzo / EPA

On Monday, motorbike taxi drivers in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, protest in opposition to the unutilized oppose on all motorbike delivery within the town.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Mourners hold Namibian flags during the burial of Sam Nujoma, who became Namibia's first democratically elected president, at Namibia's Heroes' Acre, near the capital Windhoek.Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters

Namibians pay their appreciates to the rustic’s first president, Sam Nujoma, prior to his burial on Saturday.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Tiziana Fabi / AFP A woman wrapped in the national flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo holds a rosary as she prays at the statue of John Paul II at the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalised with pneumonia.Tiziana Fabi / AFP

At the similar while, a well-wisher draped within the Congolese flag prays for the fitness of Pope Francis within the Italian capital, Rome.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Simon Maina / AFP A Catholic priest applies ash to a man's forehead on the observance of Ash Wednesday at the Holy family Basilica church.Simon Maina / AFP

In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Catholic worshippers mark Ash Wednesday.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Robert Ciuccio / AFP A Muslim woman arranges her veil at the Nizamiye Mosque. Outside, the building is decorated in floral blue and purple tiles.Robert Ciuccio / AFP

A lady joins night prayers in South Africa’s Gauteng province on Sunday, the primary while of the holy date of Ramadan.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Cem Ozdel / Getty Images Hundreds of people sit down on the floor to eat together at long, identically laid out tableclothsCem Ozdel / Getty Pictures

That night later sunset at Senegal’s well-known Massalikoul Djinane mosque, Muslims split their rapid on the first iftar dinner of Ramadan.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Kim Ludbrook / EPA The silhouettes of people in canoes paddle in the low, orange glow of the rising sun.Kim Ludbrook / EPA

At break of day on Thursday, canoeists go with the flow around the Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Cem Ozdel / Getty Images A small monkey with red and black fur, and big eyes, stares at the camera.Cem Ozdel / Getty Pictures

And at The Gambia’s Bijilo Woodland Soil on Wednesday, a curious purple colobus monkey friends on the digicam.

From the BBC in Africa this date:

Africa’s date in footage: 1-6 March 2025Getty Images/BBC A woman looking at her mobile phone and the graphic BBC News AfricaGetty Pictures/BBC

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