Our picture editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world to bring you a visual snapshot of the weekend's events.
A farmer competes in a traditional bull race at Swabi on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)
A Hindu devotee (R) sits on a weighing scale to buy jaggery in a quantity equal to his weight to worship tribal deities ahead of the Medaram Jatara festival, at a wholesale shop in Hyderabad on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Noah SEELAM / AFP)Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader John Steenhuisen among the party’s leadership celebrates with supporters at the party’s manifesto launch, 17 February 2024, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, ahead of the upcoming general elections. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenNuns cast their ballot during the regional elections at a polling station in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 18 February 2024. On 18 February, polls opened for regional elections in Galicia to elect the members of Parliament of the autonomous community in Spain. Results are expected by 23:00 local time. Picture: EPA-EFE/LAVANDEIRA JRMembers of the Palestinian national football team pose for a photo with some local children during a visit to Bo Kaap, home to the oldest Muslim community in South Africa, in Cape Town on February 16, 2024. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)Members of South Korea’s ‘Black Eagle’ aerobatics team perform during a preview of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)South African visual artist Esther Mahlangu poses in front of a BMW 525i covered in her artwork during an interview ahead of the influential Ndebele artist’s major new retrospective opening at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, on February 17, 2024. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)A general view through an installation that reads ‘Happiness is not far away’ of the Kharp settlement, which houses the IK-3 penal colony, where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny served his sentence and where he died, in Kharp, Yamal-Nenets Region, Russia, 18 February 2024. Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has died aged 47 in a penal colony, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District announced on 16 February 2024. A prison service statement said that Navalny ‘felt unwell’ after a walk on 16 February, and it was investigating the causes of his death. In late 2023 Navalny was transferred to an Arctic penal colony considered one of the harshest prisons. Picture: EPA-EFE/ANATOLY MALTSEVSarah Sjoestrom of Sweden reacts after winning the Women’s 50m Butterfly final at the FINA World Aquatics Championships Doha 2024 in Doha, Qatar 17 February 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALI HAIDERFirefighters try to put out a burning HTM bus after a riot at the Opera hall center on the Fruitweg in The Hague, The Netherlands, 17 February 2024. The police intervene in a confrontation between two groups of Eritreans after riots broke out following a meeting in the conference center. Picture: EPA-EFE/ROBIN UTRECHTUS actress Kristen Stewart poses during a photo call for the film “Love lies bleeding” presented in the Berlinale Special Gala section at the 74th Berlinale, in Berlin on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)People lay flowers and candles at a memorial on February 18, 2024 in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, following the death of the Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison. Navalny’s death after three years in detention and a poisoning which he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia’s opposition of its figurehead at time of intense repression and Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)Palestinians search for bodies and survivors among the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli air strike in Deir Al Balah town, southern Gaza Strip, 18 February 2024. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 40 members from the same family lived in the house. More than 28,900 Palestinians and over 1,300 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it. Picture: EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED SABER(From L to R) President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Brahi Ghali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, President of South Sudan Salva Kiir and Prime Minister of Tunisia Ahmed Hachani attend the unveiling ceremony of a statue dedicated to late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere during the second day of the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)Pro-Israeli supporters hold Israeli flags in front of the South African Parliament in Cape Town on February 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP)Placards are seen during a rally against antisemitism in Sydney, Australia, 18 February 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/BIANCA DE MARCHIThe algae covered waters of the Westdene Dam as the inner city dam struggles with continued pollution, Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 February 2024. Almost the entire dams surface is now covered in a green algae that feeds off the raw sewage leaks upstream from the dam as the city’s infrastructure including water and sewage systems start to collapse due to bad service delivery. Picture: EPA-EFE/KIM LUDBROOK
