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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Image source, SAMUEL ALABI/AFP
Theature students at Nigeria's University of Ibadan perform an initiation ceremony on Friday...
Image source, SAMUEL ALABI/AFP
Image caption,The rites are meant to create a bond between classmates.
Image source, JALAL MORCHIDI/EPA
Image caption,On the same day, Moroccan actress Fatima-Ezzahra el Jouhari blows a kiss on the red carpet at the Marrakech International Film Festival.
Image source, DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP
Image caption,Hilarion Kassa Moussavou from Gabon (2nd from left), who appears in the Guardians of the Forest documentary, joins co-stars from Mongolia, Brazil, Canada and Papua New Guinea at a Unesco event on Monday.
Image source, JUAN CARLOS HERNANDEZ/AFP
Image caption,A newborn South African lion cub is shown to the cameras at Venezuela's Las Delicias Zoo on Wednesday.
Image source, LUKE DRAY/GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,The day before, John Malesh stands on the now-flooded land in Benitu where his house once stood. The climate crisis has caused unprecedented weather extremes in South Sudan.
Image source, JAMES WAKIBIA/GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,In Kenya, Elizabeth Ngusilo talks to reporters outside the Nakuru High Court, as her Ogiek community challenge government attempts to evict them from the Mau Forest.
Image source, CEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Sunday sees people gather in Senegal's capital for the Dakar Carnival...
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Image caption,The festivities include canoe races...
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Image caption,And dancing by members of the Lebu community...
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Image caption,All happening under a resplendent full moon.
Image source, MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EPA
Image caption,Ethiopian designer Kunjina Tesfaye's wares go on show at the BRICS+ Fashion Summit in Russia on Thursday.
Image source, ALEX CAPARROS/FIFA/GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Ibrahim Diarra (centre) salutes with his teammates after scoring Mali's first goal against France, in the FIFA Under 17s World Cup semi-final on Tuesday.
Image source, IBRAHIM BARRIE/EPA
Image caption,A soldier carries a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, after the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup at the weekend.
Image source, AMIR MAKAR/AFP
Image caption,On the same say, a cat sits Sphinx-like at the ruins of an ancient Greek temple in Alexandria, Egypt.
Image source, SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS
Image caption,And on Saturday in South Africa's Eastern Cape, young Xhosa initiate Lukho Qongqo poses for a photograph.
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