Piercings and prayers: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
On Monday, a pierced man gives blessings during the annual Hindu festival Thaipoosam Kavady in Durban, South Africa...
People attach limes and flowers to their bodies with sharp rods and hooks to show their devotion and gratitude to Lord Murugan, a Hindu deity...
Devotees sometimes dance in a trance.
In Uganda on Monday, supporters of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son President Yoweri Museveni, ride to parliament during an anti-corruption demonstration.
On Wednesday, two Egyptian women prepare traditional cheese at a community centre in Giza, Egypt.
A man wrapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo flag attends a demonstration in Belgium on Saturday to protest against the ongoing conflict in the central African country.
The next day in the DR Congo itself, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo prays for peace with congregants at the Notre Dame du Congo Cathedral in the capital, Kinshasa.
The Chinese community in South Africa, the largest on the continent, ushers in the Lunar New Year with a dragon float in Johannesburg on Saturday...
While two young women wearing traditional attire sit inside a massage parlour in Cyryldene, the Chinese district.
King Godwin Bebe-Okpabi of Ogale attends the opening day on Thursday of a court case in London in a lawsuit against Shell over alleged oil pollution in Nigeria.
On Wednesday, a pampered pup gets a trim in a mobile pet salon in Tunis, Tunisia.
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