Huge hats and saffron strands: Africa's top shots

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:

Models wait backstage wearing huge hats and clothing featuring the same green-and-purple print.Image source, PERS-ANDERS PETTERSSON / GETTY IMAGES
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Models showcase the designs of Londeka Buthelezi-Ndaba on Saturday...

A model wearing a multicolour, multi-textured coat in South African summer cools herself with a hand-held fan.Image source, PERS-ANDERS PETTERSSON / GETTY IMAGES
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Cape Town Fashion Week is a yearly event...

Three women smile, two of them are raising champagne flutes.Image source, PERS-ANDERS PETTERSSON / GETTY IMAGES
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Which attracts people from all over.

A man carries a straw basket full of vivid purple flowers.Image source, JIHED ABIDELLAOUI / REUTERS
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Tunisian farmer Faiza Hamdaoui harvests saffron flowers in the north of the country on Monday.

Women wear ornate golden necklaces and rings. On their fingers they have brown-red henna patterns.Image source, MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
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Libyan women display their henna designs in Tripoli on Friday.

Soldiers dressed in red stand to attention and present their swords at a ceremony in Thiaroye Camp.Image source, CEM OZDEL / GETTY IMAGES
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On Sunday in Dakar, servicemen and women commemorate the Senegalese riflemen killed by the French troops they had served in World War Two. France has for the first time admitted that a "massacre" took place, but disputes the number of dead.

People marching down a road wearing voluminous costumes of different colours.Image source, CEM OZDEL / GETTY IMAGES
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On the same day in the same city, Dakar Carnival continues.

A man and woman stand next to their wedding guests under the shade of a tree and next to a wooden cabin.Image source, SIMON MAINA / AFP
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Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Nunulu pose with friends and family in Namibia's capital, Winhoek, on Saturday.

A man shows an open cocoa pod the farm in Ebebda.Image source, DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO / AFP
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Cocoa prices are rising in Cameroon, which is good news for the chief of Ebebda village Bruno Ebassa and others who work at his farm.

A smiling man and woman stand next to a painted wall, carrying their cans of paint.Image source, GERALD ANDERSON / GETTY IMAGES
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Kenyan graffiti artists flex their skills on Saturday...

An artist spray-paints a large mural of a man wearing blue sunglasses.Image source, GERALD ANDERSON / GETTY IMAGES
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These murals are in the capital city, Nairobi.

Stilt-walker Andile Sohe (32) and Miss Preteen Orange Farm, Thando Mbatha (7) pose for the camera.Image source, KIM LUDBROOK / EPA
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Orange Farm Carnival kicks off on Sunday...

Boys dressed in pink trousers and gold hats stand together.Image source, ROBERTA CIUCCIO / AFP
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Organisers say the event aims to revive the spirit of Ubuntu...

People parade in bejewelled masks and large bird effigies.Image source, ROBERTA CIUCCIO / AFP
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And promote positive social change.

A lemur of the Lemur Catta or Maki type, a species of lemur endemic to Madagascar, is locked in a wooden crate.Image source, RIJASOLO / AFP
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A lemur is repatriated to Madagascar on Sunday after investigators busted an international pet-trafficking network.

Two people place their hands near the giant egg in dramatic fashion. Image source, YUI MOK / PA WIRE
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Two days earlier in the UK, this object - described by salespeople as a centuries-old elephant-bird egg from Madagascar - is displayed at Christie's auction house.

A man walks down the street with a Hulk mask and a dummy rifle.Image source, LUISA NHANTUMBO / EPA
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A demonstrator wears a Hulk mask and a dummy rifle on Wednesday in Mozambique's capital city...

Teenagers in school uniform jog and chant.Image source, LUISA NHANTUMBO / EPA
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Students also joined the protests against October's election results.

A woman walking past a bus wears the country's national flag on her her and her T-Shirt.Image source, OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP
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As election day nears, vendors flog flags and other trinkets in Ghana's capital city, Accra.

A meerkat and her pup are pictured on day one of the Nedbank Golf Challenge 2025.Image source, WARREN LITTLE / GETTY IMAGES
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Meerkats nestled in the grass on Thursday get a free view of South Africa's Nedbank Golf Challenge.

A woman stands among the burnt remains, surrounded by smoke and bare trees.Image source, EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP
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On Monday, people living in the Jakwa informal settlement near Johannesburg are bereft after a fire ripped through at least 300 of their homes.

US President Joe Biden (R) reacts to dancers as he walks along the tarmac.Image source, ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
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Dancers greet US President Joe Biden as he touches down in the Angolan city of Catumbela on Wednesday. According to some reports he appeared to fall asleep at one of the meetings he attended in the country.

A tall, elegant woman in a red dress smiles on the red carpet.Image source, BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP
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Trailblazing South Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek attends the 2024 Fashion Awards in London, the UK.

A woman in a sequinned black dress smiles for the camera.Image source, STEPHANIECARDINALE / CORBIS
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On Tuesday, French-Algerian singer Camelia Jordana poses at Marrakech International Film Festival in Morroco.

A cyclist passes illuminated Christmas lights.Image source, MARVELLOUS DUROWAIYE / REUTERS
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And on Friday, a man cycles past Christmas lights on Victoria Island, an upmarket neighbourhood in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.

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