Deity dolls and people power: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Believers bring figurines of deities associated with twins - called hoxo - to Benin's Twins Festival in Ouidah on Sunday.
Children clean classrooms in this suburb of Dakar on Saturday before the new school year begins in Senegal.
Members of Ethiopia's Oromo community celebrate Ireecha - a thanksgiving festival - in the capital Addis Ababa on Saturday.
Renowned South African choreographer Mthuthuzeli November, who began ballet dancing at the relatively late age of 15, poses at France's Opéra Bastille on Friday.
On Sunday in Kenya's capital Nairobi, dog owners and their canine companions gather for Dogtoberfest.
Malian singer Mariam Doumbia takes part in a photoshoot in France on Wednesday. Her husband and longtime musical partner Amadou Bagayoko died in April at the age of 70.
Women wear their finery at the opening of a new sports club in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on Sunday.
On Tuesday night a full moon appears as if suspended between the minarets of this mosque in el-Shorouk, Egypt.
In a village in eastern Egypt on Friday, men duel on horseback in a game called al-Marmah.
Children climb what remains of their home in northern Egypt. This and many other houses in the Nile delta have been flooded. The prime minister says some residents knowingly built their homes in the river's flood zone.
Bedecked in the colours of the national flag and with 'Go Lions' painted on his motorbike, this Cameroonian man drives through the streets of central Yaoundé on Wednesday ahead of the national football team's 2-0 victory against Mauritius.
The skull-and-crossbones logo from popular Japanese anime series One Piece has become synonymous with Madagascar's "Gen Z Mada" protest movement. Young people are demanding that the president step down, and have rejected the offer of talks.
Also fed up with government failures, young people in Morocco have turned out in large numbers to support the "Gen Z 212" protest movement.
Thursday sees Seychellois cast their votes in a second round run-off between the current president and the leader of the governing party. Election results are expected within days.
Weavers and other artisans bring their wares to the annual handicrafts fair in Tunisia's capital city on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, canoeists glide over the waters of the Emmarentia Dam at sunrise.
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