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Africa's week in pictures: 16-22 February 2024
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond:
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A sea turtle swims in the Red Sea off Egypt on Sunday.
Image source, Octavio Passos/Getty Images
Kenyan golfer Chanelle Wangari Mwangi tees off at the Africa Amateur Women's Invitational in South Africa on Thursday.
Image source, Khaled Elfiqi/EPA
On Sunday, pupils attend a Sudanese-curriculum school in the city of Giza in Egypt.
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Artworks by Mozambique's Gonçalo Mabunda are on show at an exhibition in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday.
Image source, Hannibal Hanschke/EPA
On Saturday, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o graces the red carpet at this year's Berlin film festival, where she is serving as international jury president.
Image source, Alet Pretorius/Reuters
Earlier that day, lions are released into a sanctuary in South Africa after being rescued from Sudan.
Image source, Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Egypt's Alhodaby Mariam takes on Ukraine's Anastasiya Dymytrenko at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in South Korea on Monday.
Image source, Peter Klaunzer/EPA
This piece is part of the Shooting Down Babylon exhibition by South African artist Tracey Rose currently on show in Switzerland.
Image source, LEGNAN KOULA/EPA
This man sells jeans by the roadside in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Wednesday.
Image source, Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
Time is money in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, where this man waits outside a currency exchange bureau.
Image source, Esa Alexander/Reuters
Squatters are forcibly removed from an area of Cape Town known as "tent city" on Thursday.
Image source, Esa Alexander/Reuters
Days earlier in the same South African city, a busker plays at traffic lights.
Image source, Jerome Favre/EPA
Drummers play at a rally for presidential hopeful Khalifa Sall in Senegal on Tuesday...
Image source, John Wessels/AFP
Days earlier thousands of Senegalese march to demand that the authorities make good on their promise to hold elections without delay.
Image source, Guerchom Ndebo/AFP
Yambua Jeannine, 60, builds a makeshift home on Friday after fleeing fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels who are widely said to be backed by Rwanda...
Image source, Moise Kasereka/EPA
Rwanda denies that it is backing the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, forcing millions of people to flee their homes.
Image source, Esa Alexander/Reuters
Meanwhile in South Africa on Tuesday, people criticise the global food trade of live animals. The stench emanating from a single ship in Cape Town's harbour carrying thousands of cows has bothered residents.
Image source, Luis Tato/AFP
And mourners gather to pay their last respects to Kenya's world-record holding marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum on Thursday before he is laid to rest.
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