A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
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People attach limes and flowers to their bodies with sharp rods and hooks to show their devotion and gratitude to Lord Murugan, a Hindu deity…
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Devotees sometimes dance in a trance.
Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters
In Uganda on Monday, supporters of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son President Yoweri Museveni, ride to parliament during an anti-corruption demonstration.
Khaled Desouki / AFP
On Wednesday, two Egyptian women prepare traditional cheese at a community centre in Giza, Egypt.
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A man wrapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo flag attends a demonstration in Belgium on Saturday to protest against the ongoing conflict in the central African country.
Hardy Bope / AFP
The next day in the DR Congo itself, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo prays for peace with congregants at the Notre Dame du Congo Cathedral in the capital, Kinshasa.
Christian Velcich / AFP
The Chinese community in South Africa, the largest on the continent, ushers in the Lunar New Year with a dragon float in Johannesburg on Saturday…
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While two young women wearing traditional attire sit inside a massage parlour in Cyryldene, the Chinese district.
Isabel Infantes / Reuters
Mohamed Messara / EPA
On Wednesday, a pampered pup gets a trim in a mobile pet salon in Tunis, Tunisia.
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Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters
Khaled Desouki / AFP
Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP
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Christian Velcich / AFP
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