{"id":32279,"date":"2025-07-04T07:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-27-june\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:41:30","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-27-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-27-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 27 June"},"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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\"FETHIFETHI BELAID \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As Tunisians brace for a heatwave, a group of boys leap into the sea in Tunis on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OLYMPIAOLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Days earlier in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, children pick balloons at Magic Land…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OLYMPIAOLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The theme park opened almost two decades ago.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"PHILIMONPHILIMON BULAWAYO \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Contestants get ready backstage before the Mr and Miss Africa Albinism pageant in Zimbabwe on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"HENRYHENRY NICHOLLS \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ons Jabeur of Tunisia keeps her eyes squarely on the ball during the first day of the Wimbledon tennis championships, in the UK on Monday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JAMESJAMES WAKIBIA \/ SOPA IMAGES \/ LIGHTROCKET \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Juicy watermelons are for sale at this vendor’s stall in Nakuru, Kenya, on Wednesday. Food prices keep rising as the country grapples with a cost-of-living crisis.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OLYMPIAOLYMPIA DE MAISMONT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"EMMANUELEMMANUEL OSODI \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The next day in the same city, fighters face off in the African Warrior Dambe World Series.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BERTRANDBERTRAND GUAY \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Sunday, Nigerian singer-songwriter Rema and his entourage arrive at the Jacquemus show at Paris Fashion Week in France.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"TEMILOLUWATEMILOLUWA JOHNSON \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The day before in Lagos, Nigeria, people enjoy a Pride month club night called Be. Organisers say their goal is for clubbers to “merge soul and body with rhythm and just be”.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OUPAOUPA BOPAPE \/ GALLO IMAGES \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Celebrated South African singer Thandiswa Mazwai performs on stage at Johannesburg’s Lyric Theatre on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"KODYKODY MCGREGOR \/ WORLD SURF LEAGUE \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And the following day, surfers from around the world compete in the Ballito Pro on South Africa’s eastern coast off KwaZulu-Natal.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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