Red carpets, cars and cowries: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent:
South African actress Thuso Mbedu attends the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project party on Saturday in Hollywood, the US.
A woman walks past this mural of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town on Thursday, on what would have been the late South African president's 106th birthday.
Seen on Wednesday, this sign in Senegal's capital city of Dakar marks the westernmost tip of mainland Africa - which has been earmarked for construction by two US hotel chains.
Ahead of the presidential election in Rwanda, a man decorates this polling station in Kigali with the colours of the national flag. Paul Kagame was declared the winner with just over 99% of the vote, in a poll that rights groups have heavily criticised.
On Sunday, tennis stars Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa and Japan's Yui Kamiji of Japan win the Ladies' Wheelchair Doubles final at Wimbledon in the UK.
Swimmers dive into the sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday.
This statue of King Tutankhamun is among ancient Egyptian artefacts on show at a museum in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.
The stars of South African historical drama Queen Modjadji - Makoma Komie Mohale (L) and Masutang Resekele (R), who plays her mother - watch the season premiere in Johannesburg on Friday.
Another 200 Kenyan police officers join the 200 already in post in Haiti, where they have been deployed to tackle rampant gang violence. Their mission comes at a time when the force is under scrutiny for alleged abuses and extra-judicial killings on home soil.
Ghanaian UFC fighter Abdul Razak Alhassan (L) squares up to his opponent Cody Brundage at their weigh-in, in the US on Saturday.
On Friday, French-Cameroonian singer Yamê performs at the Vieilles Charrues music festival in western France.
On Monday in Paris, French-Ivorian actress Claudia Tagbo takes part in the Olympic torch relay.
This man enjoys a ride on Lido beach, in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu, on Saturday.
And on Tuesday, cars drive down a tree-lined street in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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