Amazigh New Year and vodún cheer: 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, 31-year-old Ange Gnacadja rests on cotton harvested in Soclogbo, Benin.
It's time for the Egyptian Marathon on Saturday in Luxor.
The next day in Tunisia's capital city Tunis, dancers compete at the Juste Debout international contest.
This diver in Cape Town throws shapes on a hot Saturday in South Africa.
Monday marks the start of the year 2975 for members of north Africa's Amazigh communities...
Celebrations in the Moroccan capital of Rabat include fashion shows and musical performances.
Earthquakes in the north of Ethiopia leave huge cracks in the road, causing this man trouble as he transports goods on Sunday.
Renowned chef Georgiana Viou - pictured on Sunday - trades a Michelin-starred restaurant in France for her new venture in Benin, called Restaurant L'Ami.
Also in Benin days earlier, Vodún worshippers approach the palace of King Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla...
Swirling zangbetos in an array of colours are a familiar part of Vodún festivals...
Meanwhile this Vodún worshipper pauses for a portrait at the Mami Wata Temple in Ouidah.
Outraged South Africans say the government has blood on its hands after waiting months to extract miners who have been trapped underground since November. Some are comparing the scandal to the Marikana mine massacre of 2012...
Left without food and supplies for weeks on end, many of the survivors were emaciated and had to be stretchered away from the site because they were too weak to walk.
This boy and the many people and families around him are among more than 100,000 people who have fled their homes in Masisi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past week alone because of deadly violence between M23 rebels and the army. Despite the cost of human misery, minerals from here are found in smartphones sold the world over.
Slick choreography for the inauguration of Mozambique's new president, Daniel Chapo, includes the handing out of refreshments featuring his portrait...
And on the same day, protesters against the election, who do not recognise Chapo as the rightful president, make their voices heard.
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