{"id":16647,"date":"2024-11-08T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-1-7-november-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:15:35","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-1-7-november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-1-7-november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 1-7 November 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"ChrisChris Jackson \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Carnival-goers don big and bright costumes in Cape Town on Wednesday…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ChrisChris Jackson \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The South African city is home to multiple parades each year.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JermoneJermone Favre \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Climate activist Khady Camara leads a women’s march in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday ahead of the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. One of their banners reads: “Soum district has had no clean drinking water since 2015.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"SiphiweSiphiwe Sibeko \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Thursday, this woman voices her outrage and holds up tear-gas canisters fired by security forces at protesters in Mozambique. Election observers say they found evidence of vote-tampering during October’s general election, and opposition demonstrations continue.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmauryAmaury Falt-Brown \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Men eat after Friday prayers at a mosque ridden with bullet holes in the Sudanese city of Omdurman…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmauryAmaury Falt-Brown \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Days later across the River Nile in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, an army soldier looks for RSF paramilitaries. Both sides in the civil war are accused by rights groups of committing atrocities against civilians.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LauraLaura Morosol \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Supporters of Mauritius’ opposition Change Alliance join a election rally in the capital, Port Louis, on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"TeresaTeresa Suarez \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A photo series of intricate braiding and threading styles shot by Nigeria’s JD Okhai Ojeikere is on display in Paris, France, on Wednesday. <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AnthonyAnthony Kwan \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ugandan-Canadian model and actress Whitney Peak attends a fashion show in Hong Kong on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MohamedMohamed Hossam \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the same day in Egypt, models sport clothes made from recycled materials at the World Urban Forum in the capital, Cairo.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LegnanLegnan Koula \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Friday is All Saint’s Day, and a moment for prayer and reflection for this woman visiting a cemetery in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmosAmos Gumulira \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Women who are refugees living in central Malawi dance at the Tumaini Festival on Saturday…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmosAmos Gumulira \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Malawian musician Jetu, 72, also performed at the event – which is billed as the world’s only music festival at a refugee camp.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JulienJulien de Rosa \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JulienJulien de Rosa \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At the same awards ceremony, France’s Prix Renaudot went to Gael Faye for his latest novel Jacaranda. Faye was born and raised in Burundi by a Rwandan mother and French father.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"YamakYamak Perea \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina wears a floral headdress at the the Miss Universe Catrinas Gala in Mexico on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"NicNic Bothma \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"CemCem Ozdel \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A pelican which has become a local celebrity in Senegal’s city of Saint Louis is pictured on Saturday outside a retired fisherman’s house, where he has lived for the last five years. <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"RodgerRodger Bosch \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And in Cape Town on Friday, endangered African penguins rest on a beach.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

From the BBC in Africa this week:<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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