Pelicans, prayers 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:
Carnival-goers don big and bright costumes in Cape Town on Wednesday...
The South African city is home to multiple parades each year.
Climate activist Khady Camara leads a women's march in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday ahead of the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. One of their banners reads: "Soum district has had no clean drinking water since 2015."
On Thursday, this woman voices her outrage and holds up tear-gas canisters fired by security forces at protesters in Mozambique. Election observers say they found evidence of vote-tampering during October's general election, and opposition demonstrations continue.
Men eat after Friday prayers at a mosque ridden with bullet holes in the Sudanese city of Omdurman...
Days later across the River Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, an army soldier looks for RSF paramilitaries. Both sides in the civil war are accused by rights groups of committing atrocities against civilians.
Supporters of Mauritius' opposition Change Alliance join a election rally in the capital, Port Louis, on Sunday.
A photo series of intricate braiding and threading styles shot by Nigeria's JD Okhai Ojeikere is on display in Paris, France, on Wednesday.
Ugandan-Canadian model and actress Whitney Peak attends a fashion show in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
On the same day in Egypt, models sport clothes made from recycled materials at the World Urban Forum in the capital, Cairo.
Friday is All Saint's Day, and a moment for prayer and reflection for this woman visiting a cemetery in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Women who are refugees living in central Malawi dance at the Tumaini Festival on Saturday...
Malawian musician Jetu, 72, also performed at the event - which is billed as the world's only music festival at a refugee camp.
On Monday, Kamel Daoud wins France's top literary award - the Prix Goncourt - for a book which has been banned in his native Algeria. The novel is called Houris and centres on Algeria's civil war.
At the same awards ceremony, France's Prix Renaudot went to Gael Faye for his latest novel Jacaranda. Faye was born and raised in Burundi by a Rwandan mother and French father.
Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina wears a floral headdress at the the Miss Universe Catrinas Gala in Mexico on Friday.
On Thursday, anti-monarchy protesters oppose Prince William's visit to South Africa where he was promoting an environmental award.
A pelican which has become a local celebrity in Senegal's city of Saint Louis is pictured on Saturday outside a retired fisherman's house, where he has lived for the last five years.
And in Cape Town on Friday, endangered African penguins rest on a beach.
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