Africa's week in pictures: 7-13 April 2023

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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:

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More than 800 couples flock to a Pentecostal church in Kgabalatsane, South Africa, for a mass wedding ceremony on Easter Sunday

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On the same day, this bride dances as she arrives for a mass wedding at a Pentecostal church south of Johannesburg

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The day before, these men dig into an Iftar feast in Sudan's capital Khartoum during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan

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Meanwhile a grander gathering in Egypt's capital Cairo sees hundreds break their fast at communal tables

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A nutritious Ethiopian enset tree, also known as the false banana, flowers for the first time at Kew Gardens in the the UK's capital city of London

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On Sunday, Coptic Christians adorn themselves with white robes and palm crosses at mass in Egypt's Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery

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Days earlier on Good Friday, this resident of Nairobi takes in the scene

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Fourteen-year-old Joseph Browlins is among a group of Catholic's in the Kenyan capital re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ

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It is a similar scene in Nigeria where this worshipper acts the part of Jesus, wig and all, during festivities in the city of Lagos

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Also on Good Friday, hundreds of children queue for hot cross buns and Easter eggs in Cape Town, South Africa

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On Wednesday, dancers perform the Tanoura in Cairo's al-Ghouri Palace

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On Sunday in Lagos, dancers and musicians perform on stage with Made Kuti - grandson of Nigerian music icon Fela Kuti

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And on Friday, tourists spot a rainbow over Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe

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