Curves, crowns and a calabash: Africa’s top shots
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
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Kenyan ballet pupils rehearse before a show in Nairobi’s Kibera neighbourhood on Wednesday.
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On Friday an artist paints a mural of Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif in her hometown of Tiaret, in south-western Algeria.
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On the same day at the Olympic Games in Paris, Julia Vincent represents South Africa in the women’s three-metre springboard diving final.
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The next day in Pretoria, former Miss South Africa Ndavi Nokeri takes to the red carpet ahead of this year’s event…
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Mia le Roux was crowned the eventual winner of the competition after a controversial few weeks in which one contestant withdrew following a public backlash over her Nigerian roots.
Image source, RICCI SHRYOCK / AFP
On Monday a Simb performer wears face paint and a costume in Senegal’s capital, Dakar…
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The group stages events throughout the year, including wrestling matches and on Independence Day.
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A worshipper brings offerings in a calabash to the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in Osogbo, south-western Nigeria, on Friday…
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The yearly Osun festival attracts devotees from far and wide.
Image source, EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP
The next day in South Africa near Johannesburg, a cosplayer takes part in a medieval fantasy fair.
Image source, MONIRUL BHUIYAN / AFP
Huge crowds greet Letsile Tebogo on Tuesday in Gaborone after the Botswana sprinter is crowned the world’s fastest man over 200m at the Olympic Games.
Image source, SALVATORE DI NOLFI/EPA
As peace talks begin on Wednesday, Sudanese protestors in Switzerland call for an end to the civil war in their home country.
Image source, AHMED GAMAL / GETTY IMAGES
Workers harvest delicate jasmine petals near the Nile delta in Egypt on Sunday.
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And in the same country days later, a man plays with a laser as people look to the night sky for a view of the Milky Way.
From the BBC in Africa this week:
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