Africa's week in pictures: 22-28 March 2024
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
On Wednesday, Sufi Muslims in Cairo prepare to perform their famous "whirling" dance, where a series of turns is said to lift them to a spiritually heightened state.
Elsewhere in Egypt’s capital city, Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadan break their fast with an enormous "iftar" street party.
This joyful duo are captured enjoying iftar on Friday - this time in a Somali refugee camp.
Thousands of miles away at the prestigious Art Basel fair in Hong Kong, paintings by Nigerian artist Babajide Olatunji catch a visitor’s eye
Cameroonian singer-songwriter Irma Pany poses for a portrait of her own on Wednesday.
While a different type of artists command attention on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana.
Colourful characters are also snapped in Nairobi, Kenya, where city-dwellers celebrate the Hindu festival, Holi.
The East African nation also hosts a World Rally Championship on Wednesday, in the south-western town of Naivasha.
South Africa play an international friendly match Algeria on Tuesday - and mark one of three goals with a sleepy celebration.
Also motionless are these unlucky fish, who wind up in a Zimbabwean trader's net on Sunday.
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