December 30, 2016
BBC News Africa
A selection of the most striking news images from the African continent
this year:
[image: Grey line][image: Oscar Pistorius walks across the courtroom
without his prosthetic legs during the third day of Oscar's hearing for a
resentence at Pretoria High Court on June 15, 2016 in Pretoria, South
Africa.]Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionOscar Pistorius removed his
prosthetic limbs and hobbled around the courtroom at his sentencing hearing
in South Africa in June.[image: People try to jump in the water right
before their boat capsizes off the Libyan coast, Aid agencies say the
sea-crossing between Libya and Italy is the main route for migrants 25 May
2016]Image copyrightITALIAN NAVY VIA APImage captionThe capsizing of a boat
in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy is caught on camera in May by
the Italian navy as officers rescued more than 560 migrants.[image: A man
carries his five-day-old son after been rescued from a crowded wooden boat
as they were fleeing Libya, during a rescue operation at the Mediterranean
sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Monday 29 August 2016]Image
copyrightAPImage captionA few months later in August, 20 small boats were
rescued off the Libyan coast full of people from Somalia and Eritrea,
included one man with his five-day-old baby.[image: People burn worthless
note bearers]Image copyrightAFPImage captionProtesters in Zimbabwean burnt
old banknotes during a demonstration in August in the capital, Harare,
against the introduction of "bond notes", which are supposed to help with
the shortage of US dollars.[image: A Chibok girl celebrates with family
members during an church service held in Abuja, Nigeria - Sunday 16 October
2016]Image copyrightAPImage captionIn October, 21 women and girls were
reunited with their families. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign made them
world-famous after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their
school in the north-eastern town of Chibok in April 2014.[image: Market in
Okavu, north-western Uganda 18 August 2016]Image copyrightPATIENCE
ATUHAIREImage
captionOne side of this road is in Uganda, the other is in DR Congo. Onions
cost the same on both sides.[image: Lucas Sithole of South Africa and
Ymanitu Silva of Brazil celebrate together after competing in the
wheelchair tennis at central court on day 3 of the Rio 2016 Paralympics on
September 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.]Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage
captionLucas Sithole of South Africa hugged Ymanitu Silva of Brazil after
competing in Wheelchair tennis at the Paralympics in September.[image:
Rwanda sitting volleyball players in a line at the Paralympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil - Saturday 10 September 2016]Image copyrightGETTY
IMAGESImage
captionOn the same day, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team sang the national
anthem ahead of a match against China.[image: South Sudan]Image
copyrightAFPImage
captionAnd a team of refugees in the Olympics for the first time. Half of
the team were from South Sudanese, including runner Yiech Pur Biel,
left.[image:
Two participants from Imatong and Terekeka counties take part of the South
Sudan National Wrestling Competition for peace at Juba Stadium, on
Wednesday 20 April 2016 2013.]Image copyrightAFPImage captionSouth Sudan is
famous for its wrestling and in April held its first tournament since civil
war broke out in 2013.[image: A fighter of Libyan forces allied with the
U.N.-backed government fires a shell with Soviet made T-55 tank at Islamic
State fighters in Sirte, Libya, August 2, 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage
captionLibya has been beset by chaos since Nato-backed forces overthrew Col
Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, enabling IS fighters to take shelter in
the country. After months of fighting they were ousted from their
stronghold in Sirte by the end of the year.[image: A schoolgirl runs past a
burning barricade in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya - Monday 23 May 2016]Image
copyrightAFPImage captionProtesters demanding electoral reforms clashed
with the police in the Kibera slum in Kenya's capital Nairobi in May and
school children were caught in the middle.[image: A protester throws rocks
next to burning tyres during a demonstration on July 6 2016, in Bulawayo
Zimbabwe]Image copyrightAFPImage captionUnprecedented protests were held in
Zimbabwe throughout 2016. After two activists were detained in July,
protestors clashed with police in the country's second city, Bulawayo.[image:
A woman pours water over a child affected by teargas after clashes between
police and street vendors in central Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday 27 September
2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionStreet vendors also protested in
Zimbabwe but police retaliated with tear gas, which people tried to wash
out of this child's eyes.[image: A man walks his donkey and its load
through flooded streets Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu, Somalia - Thursday
26 May 2016]Image copyrightALAMYImage captionFlash floods in Beledweyne,
north of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in May saw hundreds of families
forced out of their homes.[image: People sit on the top of a truck heavily
piled with corn-stalks plies as they head for Mogadishu from Afgoye on
October 19, 2016.]Image copyrightAFPImage captionAnd a few months later, in
October, this truck was pictured heading to the country's capital
Mogadishu.[image:
On Sunday, a young woman is seen through the horns of a bull at a cattle
camp in South Sudan 24 April 2016]Image copyrightAFPImage captionIn April,
a young woman is seen through the horns of a bull at a cattle camp in South
Sudan.[image: A soldier blowing a horn during a military operation in
Eastern Nile State, South Sudan - Sunday 16 October 2016]Image
copyrightEPAImage
captionIn October, a South Sudan soldier blows through a cow horn during a
military operation.[image: Kenyan children visit the still-smouldering
pyres of more than 100 tonnes of elephant tusks and over 1 ton of rhino
horns, in Nairobi National Park, Kenya Monday, May 2, 2016]Image
copyrightAPImage
captionThe tusks from about 6,700 elephants were burnt in Nairobi National
Park in Kenya in April to show the country's commitment to saving
elephants...[image: Burning elephant tusk in Nairobi, Kenya - Saturday 30
April 2016]Image copyrightAPImage captionMore than 100 tonnes of ivory was
set alight and it took several days to burn.[image: Veterinarians and park
rangers attend to a sedated elephant outside Amboseli National Park on
November 2, 2016.]Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionIn an effort to
learn more about elephants' migration routes, collars were attached to
elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in November but to do this the
elephants had to be sedated.[image: An African elephants throws mud onto
himself at the Mpala Research Center and Wildlife Foundation, near
Rumuruti, Laikipia District, Kenya, on January 31, 2016.]Image copyrightGETTY
IMAGESImage captionAnother Kenyan research centre, Mpala, hosts this
elephant which created a mud display for the camera.[image: A mural painted
on the walls of houses in Zaraeeb, created by French-Tunisian artist El
Seed, is pictured in the shanty area known also as Zabaleen or]Image
copyrightREUTERSImage captionThe French-Tunisian artist El Seed created
this mural painted on the walls of houses in a poor area of Egypt's
capital, Cairo.[image: An artist poses by his pieces of art exposed during
the Chale Wote street art festival in Accra, on 21 August 2016]Image
copyrightAFPImage captionOn the other side of the continent, the annual
Chale Wote street art festival in Accra, Ghana, continued to grow.[image: A
group of Maasai men crouching around a radio near Saikeri, Kenya - Tuesday
8 November 2016]Image copyrightAFPImage captionIn November the continent
was gripped by the US election, including this group of Maasai men near the
Kenyan town of Saikeri listening out for the result on the radio.[image:
Stewardesses stand in line during the inauguration of the new train line
linking Addis Ababa to the Red Sea state of Djibouti, in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia - Wednesday 5 October 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionIn
October the Ethiopia-Djibouti electric railway line opened, cutting journey
times from three days to about 12 hours...[image: Chinese engineers stand
in a line near a train at Furi train station near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -
Saturday 24 September 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionA lot of the
workers on the trains are Chinese.[image: Zimbabwean President Robert
Mugabe blowing out cake candles, Harare, Zimbabwe - Monday 22 February
2016]Image
copyrightEPAImage captionZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe celebrated his
92nd birthday in February with a massive cake.[image: A Rastafarian smokes,
center, after an early morning religious ceremony in Knysna, South Africa,
Tuesday, May 10,]Image copyrightAPImage captionIn the South African town of
Knysna, a Rastafarian man let the photographer see his religious ceremony
in May which includes taking a hit from a marijuana pipe.[image: Yosri
Adjili, 25, who is unemployed, goes on a hunger strike with his mouth sewed
during a sit-in protest to get jobs, at the local government office
courtyard in Kasserine, Tunisia, January 27, 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage
captionIn a protest at the lack of jobs in Tunisia, an unemployed man sewed
his lips together as part of a hunger strike in January.[image: A supporter
of Ghana]Image copyrightAFPImage captionGhana's main opposition New
Patriotic Party won the presidential election in December.[image: Man
covered in bodypaint in Nigeria's green and white colours, with the message
hommage to Stephen Keshi, stands in stadium 20 June 2016]Image
copyrightAFPImage
captionFans paid tribute to Nigerian football legend Stephen Keshi in
Togo's capital Lome at a memorial match in June.[image: A demonstrator at
Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa - Monday 4 April 2016]Image
copyrightEPAImage captionSouth Africa saw a year of student protests
against tuition fees.[image: Opposition supporters listen to a speech
during a rally held by the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy
(Cord) in Nairobi, Kenya - Wednesday 1 June 2016]Image copyrightEPAImage
captionOne supporter of Kenya's opposition Orange Democratic Movement cut a
striking image in the middle of the crowd in a rally in the capital,
Nairobi in June.[image: A worker walks next to a partially collapsed
railroad bridge over the River Nzi, near Dimbokro, Ivory Coast - Thursday 8
September 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionA railway bridge crossing
over the River Nzi from Ivory Coast to Burkina Faso collapsed, as this
September photo shows.[image: Albinos post on stage during a beauty pageant
in Nairobi, Kenya - Friday 21 October 2016]Image copyrightAFPImage captionIn
an effort to tackle the stigma faced by people with albinism, a Mr and Miss
Albinism contest was organised in Nairobi in October.[image: Men transport
a pig with a motorbike in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo -
Wednesday 28 September 2016]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionAnd finally,
this motorbike in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, has the message stuck "biloba loba to boyi", which translates from
the Lingala as "please mind your own business".
--
Ann Marie
"The art of living consists of knowing what to pay attention to and what to
ignore." -- Mardy Grothe
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