Image captionOn the same day, Gnawa performers in the Moroccan city of Essaouira celebrate the tradition’s newly minted Unesco heritage status…Image captionIt says Gnawa is primarily “a Sufi brotherhood music combined with lyrics with a generally religious content, invoking ancestors and spirits”.Image captionIn central Somalia on the same day, 74-year-old Omar Dule is among those sheltering at a UN camp after losing his home to floods that have hit thousands of people in East Africa.Image captionOn Friday, candidates for the Miss Indoni cultural pageant title wait backstage in Durban, South Africa…Image captionThe annual Indoni Cultural Festival brings together cultural groups from South Africa’s many provinces.Image captionOn Thursday, celebrations begin in Sudan’s capital Khartoum as the country marks one year since the start of protests which led to the ousting of former President Omar al-Bashir after nearly 30 years in power.Image captionOn Friday, families watch kite surfers off the coast of Libya’s capital, Tripoli.Image captionOn the same day in eastern Libya, a man practises parkour among the ruins of the the ancient Greek city of Cyrene.Image captionAt the Rugby World Sevens series in Cape Town on Saturday, a fan sports the South African flag-print swimming trunks that were popularised by player Faf de Klerk after the country’s World Cup win last month.Image captionBathers look on as a military plane lands at an airbase in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Friday.Image captionThis tribute to ancient Egypt is among the ice sculptures on display at a festival in the Netherlands on Saturday.Image captionOn Wednesday, people visit a house decked out in hundreds of Christmas lights in a suburb of Durban, South Africa.Image captionAnd visitors to Durban Botanical Gardens walk through its Trail of Lights on the same day.