A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent:
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Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems takes to the stage at Denmark’s Roskilde music festival on Saturday.
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On the same day in Durban, South Africa, flamboyant fashion reigns at the races…
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The city hosts a yearly horse racing event that also features local designers…
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Many outfits this year featured a clash of colours…
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And large headgear was de rigeur.
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In the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Sufi Muslims celebrate the Islamic New Year on Sunday.
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In the same city on Wednesday, a craftsman shapes a fez – or tarboosh – using a mould.
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A seller of second-hand car parts sits in his workshop in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on Monday.
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On Saturday, riders charge and fire muskets at an independence day event in Algeria’s capital, Algiers.
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Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the president of Guinea-Bissau, inspects troops on a visit to China on Wednesday.
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Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon breaks her own world record in the women’s 1,500m race at a Diamond League event in France on Sunday.
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The same day in Thailand, Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna competes at the World Table Tennis Star Contender Bangkok 2024.
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Biniam Girmay is back in the saddle on Sunday after winning stage eight of the Tour de France the previous day. The Eritrean cyclist said of an earlier stage win, “I never cry, but inside I am – I just have no words.”
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Farmers pick prickly pears in northern Egypt on Friday.
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Diane Rwigara poses for a portrait at her home in Kigali. The staunch critic of President Paul Kagame is barred from running in Monday’s election, and was imprisoned for over a year on insurrection charges before being acquitted.
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And on Friday, people paddle boats on an artificial lake in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
