Ping pong prowess to Red Sea bubbles: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
World-renowned South African artist Breeze Yoko stands in front of his newly created mural in the English town of Margate on Wednesday. A local group teamed up with him to make murals ahead of the town's annual soul festival.
Senegal's table tennis star Ibrahima Diaw has his eyes on the ball as he serves to Hong Kong's Wong Chun Tinga at the Paris Olympics on Monday. He lost 4-3.
On Saturday, a group of men play foosball, or table football, in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
On Monday, South African swimmer Tatjana Smith dives into the Olympic pool in Paris hoping to win the 100m breastroke....
She wins the race for her country in an emotional victory.
And the taste of success is sweet as she bites into her Olympic gold medal.
With banners and megaphones in hand, Nigerians take to the streets of Lagos to protest against the high cost of living on Thursday.
On Sunday, the sound of sweet harmony fills the University of South Africa in the capital, Pretoria, as US conductor William Eddins directs the Africa United Youth Orchestra at a rehearsal.
In Ivory Coast a woodcutter chops logs at the Abobodoume beach on Tuesday.
On the same day, a young girl cools off under a water fountain amid a heatwave in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada...
While other children use bubbles to fend off the heat.
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