Africa’s week in pictures: 16-22 August 2024

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*******’s week in pictures: 16-22 August 2024

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the ******** continent and beyond:

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Miss Universe Kenya contestants prepare backstage in Nairobi on Friday…

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They are cheered on enthusiastically by the audience.

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On the same day, models showcase clothes from *********-born fashion designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal at the V&A museum in the ***.

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Malian basketballer Maimouna Haidara sports multi-********* hair at a match against Venezuela in Mexico. The West Africans went on to win 88-66.

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A man crafts decorative Khayamiya textiles at a covered market in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday.

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Forty-two-year-old retired circus elephant, Charlie, is transferred to a game reserve in South *******’s Limpopo province on Wednesday.

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A customer thanks a ****** for serving her food at the ****** Cafe in Nairobi on Thursday.

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Dricus Du Plessis of South ******* and ******* Adesanya of Nigeria embrace after slugging it out at their UFC middleweight championship ****** on Sunday, won by Du Plessis.

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People wave flags in Gabon’s capital, Libreville, during Saturday’s Independence Day parade.

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Christians carry an effigy of the ******* Mary during the ******** of Trapani festival on Friday in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis.

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Fans in Goma get hyped up before a Fally Ipupa concert on Friday. The Congolese singer ended up cancelling a string of his shows – refunds were promised but many ticket-buyers complain they have not got their money back yet.

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Kenyan rap duo Wadagliz pose for the camera during an interview in Nairobi. Their hit song Anguka Nayo – meaning “Roll With It” – has become a soundtrack to recent youth-led anti-government rallies.

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In Johannesburg on Saturday, South ******** actress Abigail Kubeka is honoured at an event marking her 67-year career and contribution to the arts.

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People in the flooded capital of Chad, N’Djamena, use a boat to get around on Wednesday. More than 16,000 homes have been damaged and destroyed since mid-July.

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Burundian journalist and government critic Floriane Irangabiye thanks her legal team who had pleaded with the president to free her from prison, which he finally did on Friday, granting her an official pardon.

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On Sunday, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Justine Munguiko holds her child who has been cured of mpox. This virus is “not the new Covid” because authorities clearly know how to control its spread, a leading World Health Organization expert has said.

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On Wednesday, food aid is finally permitted to enter Sudan’s Darfur region for the first time in six months. The breakthrough came following international pressure to avert full-scale famine. More than half of the national population need assistance, the UN estimates.

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Malawi’s main opposition DPP gathers on Sunday for a party conference where ex-President Peter Mutharika was formally chosen to stand in next year’s presidential election.

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Fisheries engineer Ramla Bouhlel handles a Posidonia plant in Tunisia’s coastal city of Monastir on Friday. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WFF), this type of seagrass “creates essential living habitats for thousands of marine species”.

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And on Monday evening a supermoon, also known as the Blue Moon, rises over Cape Town in South *******.

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