2024

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond.

At least 58 people are known to have died in a boating disaster that was caught on camera.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks, telling the upper house of… Read More »UK’s Sunak pledges to start Rwanda deportation flights for asylum seekers in 10-12 weeks

It means the US will lose its primary base where it monitors regional Islamist activity.

In March, rumours that cannibalism is common in Haiti were widely shared on social media. These rumours were largely based on three videos. But two… Read More »Rumours of cannibalism in Haiti: True or false?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due Monday in neighbouring Iraq for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security… Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan heads to Iraq in rare state visit to discuss water, oil, security

Gaza’s civil defence said Sunday health workers had uncovered at least 50 bodies of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital in… Read More »Scores of bodies found in mass graves unearthed at Gaza hospital

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gives a well-loved London landmark a bold pink makeover.

North Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the sea off South Korea’s east coast, Seoul’s military said on Monday, the latest in an… Read More »North Korea fires unidentified missile into sea in latest weapons launch, Seoul says

Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours.