A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
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A hot Thursday in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is as good a time as any to cool off in the waters of the Indian Ocean…
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Bold blue designs by Bubu Ogisi are showcased in Nigeria at Lagos Fashion Week on Friday.
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On the same day, further north in Nigeria’s Kwara State, brides-to-be get ready for the Awon mass wedding – an annual event.
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Chad triumph over Tunisia in the Fifa Unites women’s football series in Morocco on Saturday.
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On the same day, Halloween costumes and ghoulish disguises abound at Cape Town’s Zombie Walk charity fundraiser in South Africa.
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The next day, Rastafarian faithful in the Kenyan town of Rongai celebrate the 95th anniversary of the coronation of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor.
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All Saint’s Day in the Christian calendar is traditionally a time to remember the dead. This procession in Fadiouth, Senegal, on Saturday heads to a local cemetery.
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On Friday, naval officers rehearse ahead of the inauguration of Zanzibar’s president. The archipelago, off the east coast of Africa, is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania…
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Mourners on mainland Tanzania attend the funeral of a young opposition Chadema party official on Thursday. The party says he was among hundreds it believes were killed in a crackdown on post-election protests that saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan elected.
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And on Wednesday, the so-called Beaver supermoon rises over the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
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