Africa's week in pictures: 19-25 June 2020

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

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Passengers wait on a commuter minibus, or "car rapide", at a bus station in Dakar, Senegal on Wednesday.

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On the same day, but on the other side of the continent, activists paint a mural to mark last year's mass demonstration against Sudan's military.

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Also on Wednesday, a girl in Libya's capital, Tripoli, is looking forward to eating her grilled corn.

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A Nigerian firefighter tackles a fire caused by a collision between two fuel tankers, which killed one person on Sunday.

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Traffic on the railway between Ivory Coast's biggest city, Abidjan, and Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, was halted on Friday after a landslide...

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It left 13 people dead in Anyama just north of Abidjan...

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At least 20 houses were also swept away following days of heavy rain.

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A Tanzanian miner cashed in when he came across a record-breaking 15kg (33lb) of the gemstone Tanzanite, worth £2.4m ($3.4m), on Wednesday.

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Burundian refugee, Bazira Afros, 26, poses for a photo in Kenya ahead of World Refugee Day on Saturday.

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Supporters of President Félix Tshisekedi in the Democratic Republic of Congo protest against proposed changes to the judiciary on Wednesday.

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Libyan experts search for human remains in a mass grave in Tarhuna south-east of Tripoli on Tuesday following the withdrawal of forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar.

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And a delegate from Angola observes the vote of a resolution condemning police brutality and racism in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the UN Human Rights Council in the Swiss city of Geneva on Friday.

Pictures from AFP, EPA and Reuters

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