Shades, sparks and snow: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Shukri Osman Muse, 25, gets ready to ride her horse in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu on Friday. She believes she is the "first female equestrian" in the country, and says it "was a dream of mine for many years".
The next day, Kenya's Sabrina Simader slaloms down the slopes at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Italy.
In Senegal's capital Dakar the following day, wrestlers compete in the country's specific form of the sport - known as laamb.
Tunisian tennis ace Ons Jabeur is bested by this shot from her American opponent Emma Navarro at the Australian Open on Saturday.
On the same day in Cairo, Egypt, lanterns go on sale ahead of Ramadan.
On Sunday in Addis Ababa, high priests gather to pray during the celebration of Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany, called Timkat...
Timkat marks the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan and is one of the most important religious festivals for Christians in the East African country. Here, Ethiopians living in the US city of Washington DC relish the festivities.
Children read by candlelight on Friday in Mathare, an informal settlement in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Also on Friday, Congolese models pose for a photoshoot in the southern city of Lubumbashi.
Also on Friday, a woman walks past this mural in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.
A hornbill enjoys a grub in Bela Bela, South Africa, on Thursday.
Days earlier in the South African town of Magaliesburg, members of the Immaculate Conception Guild pose next to a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Mother of Mercy Shrine...
People are gathered there on Saturday for the blessing of the statue and to perform the Stations of the Cross - a series of prayers following in the footsteps of Jesus.
On Wednesday, men who have migrated from South Sudan huddle around a fire during cold temperatures in northern France.
In Senegal on Friday, Bineta Dieng shows a photo of her 19-year-old daughter Maimouna, who left for Spain on a boat with dozens of other people two years ago, which later disappeared. "Nobody has been recovered," she says.
On Saturday in the British capital, London, a woman draws attention to the plight of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, during a protest against Israel's war in Gaza.
An artist reimagines the Last Supper on a pair of Nike trainers in Tunisia on Thursday. Kenenti workshop in the capital, Tunis, restores old shoes and handbags to create something new.
A Masai man lights kindling for a fire in Arusha, Tanzania, on Thursday.
People take a stroll in Morocco's Atlas Mountains on Sunday.
And on Friday, girls carry basins of water in Togo's capital, Lomé.
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