Ballet dancers and yawning lions: Africa's top shots

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

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British-Somali athlete Mo Farah poses for a selfie with a little girl at the launch of a digital library in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Sunday.

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Members of Senegal's Sencirk circus troupe, founded by a former beggar, perform in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Saturday...

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Ivory Coast's national ballet also takes to the stage at Abidjan's Culture Palace on Saturday.

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A woman pulls a trolley with recyclable material past veld fires outside South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, on Monday.

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Motorists drive through a sandstorm in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on the same day.

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A young woman and her daughter pose for a portrait in the Chadian town of Adre on Saturday after fleeing conflict across the border in Sudan's Darfur region.

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Waves of dust from the Sahara Desert reach Greece, settling on the capital, Athens, on Tuesday.

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A young boy and his dog cross the flooded Athi River, the second-biggest in Kenya, on Tuesday as heavy rains sweep through the East African nation.

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A young woman and her daughter pose for a portrait in the Chadian town of Adre on Saturday after fleeing conflict across the border in Sudan's Darfur region.

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In Ghana's capital, Accra, traditional leaders are invited to an event where opposition presidential candidate John Mahama unveils former Education Minister Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate in December's election.

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Demonstrators on horses takes part in a protest in the Niger city of Agadez on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of US troops based in the West African state to fight jihadists...

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At the same protest a man holds a placard reading Long Live Niger as hostility towards the US and former colonial power France grows in the country.

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A lion yawns as a lioness lays on her back after mating in Kenya's world-famous Maasai Mara game park on Friday.

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