A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
The same day, a mother was welcoming her newborn in a hospital in Juba, South Sudan. The country is one of the most dangerous places on earth to give birth, Unicef revealed this week.
On the other side of the world in South Korea, Ghana's skeleton slider Akwasi Frimpong was introducing his daughter to a new friend.
Libyans were also remembering an important date this week. On 17 February, it was the seventh anniversary of the revolution which toppled Col Muammar Gaddafi.
It was people who were flying in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, during its first Circus Festival.
It is not every day you see an elephant upside down and suspended in the air - but on Wednesday in Nyeri county, Kenya, that is exactly what was happening.
In Zimbabwe, people gathered to mourn the loss of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who has died aged 65.
In Ethiopia veterans marked the Addis Ababa Massacre, when at least 20,000 Ethiopians were killed by occupying Italian forces on 19 February, 1937.
But in Kenya, thoughts were turning to the next big competition - the Commonwealth Games in Australia in April.
Across the border, Egypt is readying itself for an election. Supporters put up this campaign banner for the current president in Cairo this week.
