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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent.

The BBC sees first-hand the desperation of Sudanese people affected by the civil war and hunger crisis.

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Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was doused in petrol after returning home from church.

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Two NI women say hoards of passengers have been left without clothes and medication.

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The US Secretary of State will visit Haiti this week to discuss its "democratic transition”.

Africa is home to 54 countries and it has the youngest population in world, but the majority of the continent’s leaders are elderly, many in their seventies upwards, like the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya who is in his early nineties.

Increasingly, the younger generations are publicly demanding change, but those presidents who have occupied the same role for decades, with no sign of stepping down, are not seen as representative of what these young people want.

Some countries in Africa, like Senegal, have already bucked the trend. In April this year, they appointed Africa’s youngest democratically elected president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who is in his early forties.

And a number of African countries have already eased barriers for young adults entering politics. But whilst it doesn’t mean necessarily that younger leaders will always be better, the expectation is they will engage meaningfully with the high percentages of young people in their countries on issues that will shape their futures.

So this week on The Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Are Africa’s leaders too old to govern the young?

Contributors: Dr Adem Kassie Abebe, Senior Advisor, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, The Netherlands. Vice President, African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, South Africa. Achaleke Christian Leke, Executive Director, Local Youth Corner Cameroon. Boluwatife Ajayi, Senior Programs Associate for the Network of Youth for Sustainable Initiative, Nigeria Kholood Khair, Political Analyst and Researcher, Founder and Director of Confluence Advisory, formerly based in Sudan.

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier Producer: Jill Collins Researcher: Matt Toulson Editor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford Broadcast Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson

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