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

Authorities say militia fighters in northeastern Congo have killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

Killings and mass rape are unfortunately frequent scenes of conflict-related sexual violence that have plagued the Democratic ...

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

The two men have sparred over social media ... Defence Minister Angie Motshekga denied reports that South African forces in Congo were ill equipped or lacking ammunition or food.

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo fighting have exposed an ...

The Rwanda Defense Force reported escorting hundreds of "Romanian mercenaries" out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The Congolese community is so close-knit that the locals call the area where they live in the dusty suburbs 'Little Kinshasa'. It doesn't matter that most Kinyarwanda speakers live in the eastern ...

Burundi troops in Congo to counter M23 rebels Rwanda denies ... in North Kivu, losing dozens of men after they were overrun by M23, four sources told Reuters. "The Burundians have (since) pulled ...