April 21, 2017 BBC News Africa *A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.* [image: Praise singers in traditional regalia dressed up for mass church service in Johannesburg, South Africa. EPA/Photo - 14 April 2017]Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionPraise singers in traditional regalia dressed up on Good Friday for a church service in Johannesburg, South Africa...[image: Christian faithful carrying a cross during a silent march in Durban, South Africa. April 14, 2017. REUTERS/Rogan Ward]Image copyright REUTERSImage captionWhile these Christians carry a cross during a silent march in Durban, South Africa...[image: An Ethiopian Orthodox priest blesses faithful during an Easter eve prayer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 15, 2017. Picture REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri]Image copyrightPHOTOSHOTImage captionThe following day, an Ethiopian Orthodox priest blesses the faithful in Addis Ababa.[image: A Sudanese girl poses on Sunday at a local market in a protected region, 480 km from the capital Khartoum.]Image copyrightAFPImage captionA Sudanese girl shows off her face tatoos on Sunday at a local market 480 km from the capital Khartoum.[image: Members of Zimbabwe's guard of honour parade during the country's 37th Independence Day celebrations Tuesday. / AFP PHOTO / 18 April 2017]Image copyrightAFPImage captionMembers of Zimbabwe's Guard of Honour go on parade on Tuesday as part of celebrations marking the country's 37 years of independence from Britain.[image: US Defense Secretary James Mattis leaves after placing a wreath at the memorial of the Unknown Soldier in Cairo on April 20, 2017.]Image copyright AFPImage captionThe memorial of the "Unknown Soldier" in Egypt's capital Cairo pictured on Thursday during a visit of US Defense Secretary James Mattis.[image: The parliament of Morocco during a joint public meeting in Rabat, on April 19, 2017, / AFP PHOTO]Image copyrightAFPImage captionThe same day, in Morocco's capital Rabat, a female MP is pictured as she walks across the floor at joint meeting of parliament.[image: An antelope drinking from a pond in Dinder national reserve, in Sennar state in Sudan, Sudan. / AFP PHOTO 14 April]Image copyrightAFPImage captionThis shot taken on Friday shows an antelope by a pond in a national reserve in Sudan.[image: Female jihadists and their children sit at Reform and Rehabilitation foundation in Mitiga in Tripoli, Libya April 19, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny]Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionA day earlier on Wednesday, female fighters from Islamist militant groups take their seat in a reform and rehabilitation centre in Libya's capital Tripoli.[image: A Tunisian boy sells clothes at a market in the centre of Tunis on April 14, 2017. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAIDFETHI]Image copyrightAFPImage captionIn neighbouring Tunisia, where officials recently launched a project against child labour, a boy on Friday sells clothes at a market in the capital Tunis. Images courtesy of AFP, EPA, Getty Images and Reuters -- Ann Marie "The art of living consists of knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore." -- Mardy Grothe ################################################################################################# Join the African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25 per year. Mail check to: AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI 53701 Phone: 608-258-0261 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.AfricanAssociationofMadison.org ################################################################################################# *** Send email to the list: [log in to unmask] *** *** Access AAM list archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/AAM.html ***