A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
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Colour Festival kicks off in Nairobi on Saturday…
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The event in the Kenyan capital attracts young revellers…
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Who joyously throw powder pigments in the air and dance to music.
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A clownfish nestles among anemones in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt on Friday…
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While on Wednesday in the same body of water, Turkish divers find cars, clothes and toys as they explore a ferry that sank on its way from Saudi Arabia to Egypt in 1991.
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This man sits on a wall in his home village of Ait Benhaddou in Morocco, which is renowned for it earthen clay architecture.
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A puppet show ushers in the Carthage Theatre Festival in Tunisia on Sunday.
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On Wednesday in Senegal, Dakar Carnival begins…
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It’s a show-stopping display of Serer, Fula and Mandinka cultures…
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With singers and all manner of performers on the bill.
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Abidjan Livestock Summit in Ivory Coast attracts visitors, young and old, on Friday.
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In South Africa on Sunday, a procession of bikers take part in the Toy Run…
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The idea is that masses of cuddly toys will be donated afterwards to children in need.
Abubaker Lubowa / ReutersA protester looks defiant as she is pushed into a police van in Uganda’s capital city on Monday. She was among those voicing their rage at the treatment of opposition leader Kizza Besigye, whose wife says he was unjustly abducted in Kenya then sent to a military jail.
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And on Sunday, teenagers sit their end-of-year exams in the Usli, northern Sudan.
From the BBC in Africa this week:
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Publish date : 2024-11-29 07:35:06
