A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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Image caption,Art lovers take in these works by Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu during Milano Art Week in Italy on Friday...
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Image caption,Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses on Tuesday as she prepares for the 2024 Olympics.
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Image caption,Kenyan skateboarders take part in the Amps & Ramps contest in Nairobi on Saturday.
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Image caption,On the same day, people of African descent take part in the Congo dance at a festival in the Central American nation of Panama.
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Image caption,On Tuesday, Ethiopians in the ancient city of Harar celebrate the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year.
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Image caption,The King of Pop graces this bus in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Friday. Michael Jackson was also crowned the king of a village during a visit to the country in 1992.
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Image caption,Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso's Fientan group take to the stage at the African Entertainment Arts Market in Ivory Coast on Wednesday...
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Image caption,Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville.
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Image caption,Craftsmen dye animal skins at this tannery in Fez, northern Morocco, on Wednesday.
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Image caption,South African surfers are shrouded in morning mists on Muizenberg beach on Thursday.
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Image caption,A Dipri festival-goer holds a blade to his tongue on Saturday. Acts like these are part of a community ceremony in south-eastern Ivory Coast of honouring sacrifices made by an ancestor who saved them from hunger.
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Image caption,In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost to half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago.
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Image caption,Days earlier, handmade items hang next to a wall on Senegal's famous clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island.
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Image caption,On Saturday in Cameroon, royals and a guardian surround the Bamoun throne...
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Image caption,And ceremonial gunfire kicks off the official opening of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in the city of Foumban.
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