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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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Image caption,Children climb on a tree in north-eastern Mozambique on Saturday after it was torn down during Cyclone Gombe, which had gusts of more than 200km/h (125mph).
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Image caption,Members of a Burkinabè circus perform on Wednesday at an event in the Ivorian city of Abidjan featuring circuses from eight countries across the world.
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Image caption,Tigers rescued from Argentina by an animal charity are released at a sanctuary in South Africa's Free State province on Saturday. After more than 15 years stuck in a train carriage, the big cats will now be able to live outside.
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Image caption,On the same day, a woman in the South African city of Durban takes part in a Hindu ceremony to give thanks to the goddess Kali.
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Image caption,South Africa's award-winning actress Thuso Mbedu dazzles as she arrives at the Critics Choice Awards in the US city of Los Angeles on Sunday.
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Image caption,The next day, it is mannequins that make their mark at a clothes market in the Nigerian city of Lagos....
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Image caption,Giant pineapples are also pictured for sale in the city on Monday.
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Image caption,On Wednesday, cooking oil is sold in sachets at a market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe.
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Image caption,On the same day, motorcyclists line up at a petrol station in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo - the only place in town not to have raised prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Image caption,A lollipop man oversees schoolchildren crossing a road on Wednesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Image caption,Also on Wednesday a child is seen at Burkina Faso's Village-Opera school, designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré - the first African to win architecture's prestigious Pritzker Prize.
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Image caption,In the Libyan city of Bengazi on Tuesday, a boy strikes a cool pose on a motorbike...
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Image caption,The gathering of "easy riders" is organised by the Benghazi Motorcycles Club, which was founded in 2014.
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Image caption,It was all smiles for Arsenal's Ghanaian Thomas Partey after he scores a goal on Sunday in an English Premier League match against Leicester City.
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Image caption,Trumpeters parade in Liberia on Tuesday during an event to mark what would have been the 213th birthday of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a freed US slave who became the country's first president.
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Image caption,Harpists play during a memorial in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday for Bishop Merkorios, who was a patriarch of the country's Orthodox Church...
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Image caption,Selfies are taken the next day at the burial ceremony for the 83-year-old cleric, who returned from 27 years in exile in 2018.
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Image caption,Also on Sunday, women assemble a shelter at a camp for those seeking aid outside the Somali town of Baradere. Almost seven million Somalis face severe food and water shortages.
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Image caption,Men sit on self-made platforms to fish on Lake Tanganyika by the Burundian city of Bujumbura on Wednesday….
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Image caption,Earlier, fishermen who were out on the lake overnight push their boat on to the beach for safety.
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Image caption,And a woman is pictured on Sunday at an event to mark Tunisia's National Day of Traditional Dress.
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