Flags, fists and falls: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
On Sunday in Senegal's capital Dakar, graffiti artists paint images and messages of solidarity with Palestinians.
Days later in the same city, breeders bring their prize animals to compete at an international livestock fair. The spotlight was on the Ladoum - the world's most expensive breed of sheep.
On Tuesday in Niger, supporters of the military government praise their decision to forge the Alliance of Sahel States with other junta-led neighbours and drop out of the long-established West African regional alliance, Ecowas.
Hearty applause greets Cameroonian designer Imane Ayissi after his latest show at Paris Fashion Week in France on Monday.
In the same city the day before, French-Senegalese film director Ramata-Toulaye Sy waves to cameras as she leaves the Chanel Spring-Summer show.
On Wednesday in the Democratic Republic of Congo a fighter belonging to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel movement, which has seized much of Goma city, stands at a border crossing...
Many in Goma are without safe drinking water, and are resorting to filling jerry cans in Lake Kivu.
On Saturday, 71-year-old Noël Louise Mekah Fossi, the daughter of murdered Cameroon independence activist Jacob Fossi, stands at the site of his death in Metche Falls. She is an outspoken critic of France's foreign policy towards its former colony.
In the US on Monday, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed and Timeea Mohamed Ahmed attend the premiere for Khartoum at the Sundance Film Festival.
A day earlier, Kenyan rugby player Denis Abukuse take photos with fans after a match against New Zealand in Australia.
This woman flies the flag for Liberia ahead of President Joseph Boakai's state of the union speech in Monrovia on Monday.
On Tuesday in Egypt's capital, Cairo, people sit at the Umm Kulthum cafe, which is named after the late Egyptian singer, songwriter and film actress.
Moroccan chefs Mohamed El Yazidi (L) and Omar Eddie (R) compete at the Bocuse d'Or pastry contest in France on Friday.
On Saturday, bathers enjoy a thermal pool in north-eastern Tunisia.
And on Sunday, Japanese runner "Gump" Suzuki celebrates competing his six-month run from Kenya to South Africa.
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