A collection of the week’s greatest images from throughout the African continent:
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South African actress Thuso Mbedu attends the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Challenge celebration on Saturday in Hollywood, the US.
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A lady walks previous this mural of Nelson Mandela in Cape City on Thursday, on what would have been the late South African president’s 106th birthday.
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Seen on Wednesday, this sign up Senegal’s capital metropolis of Dakar marks the westernmost tip of mainland Africa – which has been earmarked for development by two US resort chains.
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Forward of the presidential election in Rwanda, a person decorates this polling station in Kigali with the colors of the nationwide flag. Paul Kagame was declared the winner with simply over 99% of the vote, in a ballot that rights teams have closely criticised.
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On Sunday, tennis stars Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa and Japan’s Yui Kamiji of Japan win the Girls’ Wheelchair Doubles closing at Wimbledon within the UK.
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Swimmers dive into the ocean within the Egyptian metropolis of Alexandria on Friday.
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This statue of King Tutankhamun is amongst historic Egyptian artefacts on present at a museum in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.
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The celebs of South African historic drama Queen Modjadji – Makoma Komie Mohale (L) and Masutang Resekele (R), who performs her mom – watch the season premiere in Johannesburg on Friday.
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One other 200 Kenyan cops be a part of the 200 already in publish in Haiti, the place they’ve been deployed to sort out rampant gang violence. Their mission comes at a time when the pressure is below scrutiny for alleged abuses and extra-judicial killings on house soil.
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Ghanaian UFC fighter Abdul Razak Alhassan (L) squares as much as his opponent Cody Brundage at their weigh-in, within the US on Saturday.
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On Friday, French-Cameroonian singer Yamê performs on the Vieilles Charrues music competition in western France.
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On Monday in Paris, French-Ivorian actress Claudia Tagbo takes half within the Olympic torch relay.
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This man enjoys a experience on Lido seaside, in Somalia’s capital metropolis Mogadishu, on Saturday.
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And on Tuesday, vehicles drive down a tree-lined avenue in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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