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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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Image caption,On Monday, Xhosa dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a World Surf League event in South Africa…
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Image caption,The Corona Open J-Bay is an annual competition held at Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape province.
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Image caption,The next day a woman is pictured in traffic in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso - a country where reportedly nearly all adults own a motorcycle.
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Image caption,An army officer in Ivory Coast addresses the media on Wednesday - about a row over the arrest of Ivorian soldiers at the main airport in neighbouring Mali.
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Image caption,Ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid, a goat's teeth are checked at a livestock market in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Friday...
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Image caption,On the same day in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, a similar market is busy with those preparing for the festival…
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Image caption,Eid al-Adha means Festival of the Sacrifice - and often involves sacrificing an animal. Here a cockerel is seen at a market on Friday in Nigeria's capital, Abuja...
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Image caption,In Nigeria, Eid was marked on Saturday - and in Lagos the heavens open during the morning prayer in the city...
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Image caption,Mali too celebrated Eid on Saturday - with these children dressed up at prayers held in the village of Djiakaking in the central region of Segou...
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Image caption,The Eid festivities in Nigeria's northern city of Kano continued into Monday, with children seen here at an amusement park.
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Image caption,Performers from Togo - a troupe called Afuma - tower over an audience in Poland on Saturday…
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Image caption,The men on stilts are taking part in the Ulica Festival - three days of street theatre in the southern Polish city of Kraków.
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Image caption,On the same day, Ugandan mixed-martial-arts fighter David Onama soaks up the atmosphere at a UFC Fight Night in the US city of Las Vegas, where he defeated Garrett Armfield.
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Image caption,Children in northern Kenya take a boat to school on Wednesday as the rising water of Lake Turkana has made it impossible for them to go by land...
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Image caption,However the area is also affected by drought and on Tuesday, people gather under a tree to attend an outreach clinic to help tackle health issues related to the lack of rain.
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Image caption,On Friday, a scale is monitored at a scrap-metal dealer in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, where high levels of unemployment have left many looking for alternatives sources of income.
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Image caption,On Sunday, the sun is seen setting over the River Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
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Image caption,South Africa's Donald Ramphadi plays at Wimbledon during the quad wheelchair men's doubles semi-final on Friday - but a mechanical issue with his wheelchair forced him to retire...
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Image caption,There is also heartbreak for Tunisia's Ons Jabeur, who was runner-up on Saturday at Wimbledon's women's singles final…
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Image caption,Nonetheless the tennis star is greeted as a hero on her return to Tunisia, posing with fans in Tunis on Wednesday.
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Image caption,And that evening the supermoon is seen rising over the Tunisian capital.
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