Africa’s week in pictures: 11

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*******’s week in pictures: 11

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

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South ******** actress Thuso Mbedu attends the Charlize Theron ******* Outreach Project party on Saturday in Hollywood, the US.

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A woman walks past this mural of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town on Thursday, on what would have been the late South ******** president’s 106th birthday.

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Seen on Wednesday, this sign in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar marks the westernmost tip of mainland ******* – which has been earmarked for construction by two US hotel chains.

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Ahead of the presidential election in Rwanda, a man decorates this polling station in Kigali with the colours of the national flag. Paul Kagame was declared the winner with just over 99% of the vote, in a poll that rights groups have heavily criticised.

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On Sunday, tennis stars Kgothatso Montjane of South ******* and Japan’s Yui Kamiji of Japan win the Ladies’ Wheelchair Doubles final at Wimbledon in the ***.

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Swimmers ***** into the sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday.

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This statue of King Tutankhamun is among ancient Egyptian artefacts on show at a museum in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.

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The stars of South ******** historical drama Queen Modjadji – Makoma Komie Mohale (L) and Masutang Resekele (R), who plays her mother – watch the season premiere in Johannesburg on Friday.

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Another 200 Kenyan police officers join the 200 already in post in Haiti, where they have been deployed to tackle rampant gang *********. Their mission comes at a time when the force is under scrutiny for alleged abuses and extra-judicial killings on home soil.

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Ghanaian UFC fighter Abdul Razak Alhassan (L) squares up to his opponent Cody Brundage at their weigh-in, in the US on Saturday.

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On Friday, French-Cameroonian singer Yamê performs at the Vieilles Charrues music festival in western France.

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On Monday in Paris, French-Ivorian actress Claudia Tagbo takes part in the Olympic torch relay.

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This man enjoys a ride on Lido beach, in Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu, on Saturday.

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And on Tuesday, cars drive down a tree-lined street in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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