A Week in Pictures, Middle East and Africa, February 28, 2020

Again too busy for commentary so pictures only this week - apologies

An Iranian woman wears a protective mask to prevent contracting the coronavirus as she sits in a bus in Tehran, Iran February 25, 2020. WANA via REUTERS/Nazanin Tabatabaee

Clothes hang to dry on a cluster of branches in Azaz, Syria February 22, 2020.   REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

A Syrian boy removes a dead chicken from the debris of a building hit by an air strike in Idlib, Syria, February 20, 2020.   REUTERS/Umit Bektas

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 Muslims wear protective face masks following the coronavirus outbreak, as they pray on the street during Friday prayers in Manama, Bahrain February 28, 2020.   REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli Forces towards Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Israeli settlements and the U.S President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, in Beita town near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 28, 2020.    REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta 

Effigies depicting U.S President Donald Trump and Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are burnt by Palestinian demonstrators during a protest to mark the 26^th anniversary of the shooting attack by Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West bank February 28, 2020.   REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

School friends of Barthelemy Laurent Guibahi, a 14-year-old Ivorian boy who was found dead in the undercarriage of an Air France plane, attend his funeral ceremony in Abidjan, Ivory Coast February 28, 2020.   REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

A man attempts to fend off a swarm of desert locusts at a ranch near the town of Nanyuki in Laikipia county, Kenya February 21, 2020.    REUTERS/Baz Ratner

A man stands in a doorway of the Kelly Ann Hotel, the scene of an August 2018 police raid in which 57 men were arrested on charges of public display of affection with members if the same sex in Lagos Nigeria February 20, 2020.   REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja - Read on here

South Africa’s Quinton de Kock dives to catch out Australia’s Matthew Wade during their T20 match at Newlands Cricket ground, Cape Town South Africa February 26, 2020.   REUTERS/Mike Hutchings