{"id":33617,"date":"2025-07-25T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-18\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:28:53","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 18"},"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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\"FEISALFEISAL OMAR \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Branches graze the top of this mural in eastern Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"QUINNQUINN ROONEY \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Guinea’s Alexandra Mansare-Traor\u00e9, 25, competes at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"KRISTYKRISTY SPARROW \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Tems takes to the stage at Paris’ Lollapalooza festival on the same day. The Grammy award-winning Nigerian star is hosting an event next month in Lagos to help more young women break into the music industry…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"KRISTYKRISTY SPARROW \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Also at Lollapalooza, a day earlier, was Cape Verdean singer Ronisia.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"GERALDGERALD ANDERSON \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kenyan bodybuilders train at this gym in the Mathare neighourhood of Nairobi on Monday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ABDELABDEL MAJID BZIOUAT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Ghanaian footballers Josephine Afua Kyerewaa Bonsu and Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah celebrate a goal against host nation Morocco at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday. They narrowly missed out on a place in the final<\/a>, losing 4-2 on penalties. Morocco will take on Nigeria for the trophy on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"FREDRIKFREDRIK LERNERYD \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

People gather at the feet of the Maluti Mountains on Saturday…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"FREDRIKFREDRIK LERNERYD \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

They are taking part in an annual horse race after the King of Lesotho’s birthday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ABDELABDEL MAJID BZIOUAT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The day before in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, local people take part in the Ahidous National Festival which encompasses Amazigh storytelling, music and games.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OJOJ KOLOTI \/ GALLO IMAGES\/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Monday in South Africa, Malusi Gigaba of the African National Congress is one of two politicians presented with an honourary PhD in Public Management and Governance at the University of Johannesburg.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MOHAMEDMOHAMED ABD EL GHANY \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dilapidated buildings affected by rising seas and coastal erosion cling to the shoreline of Alexandria, in northern Egypt, on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"GERALDGERALD ANDERSON \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Builders get to work constructing new homes in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MOHAMEDMOHAMED ABD EL GHANY \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

These children are among families who fled the civil war in Sudan to reach Egypt, but are now reportedly volunteering go home. This train is taking them south from Cairo to Aswan on Monday on the first leg of their journey back.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BENBEN MCSHANE \/ SPORTSFILE \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Francisca Chipare of Zimbabwe looks on during the Women’s T20 International Series against Ireland in Dublin on Sunday, which the African side went on to lose.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MUHAMADOUMUHAMADOU BITTAYE \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Anti-corruption protests called by Gambians Against Looted Assets (Gala) draw thousands of participants on Wednesday in Banjul.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ABDELABDEL MAJID BZIOUAT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ESAESA ALEXANDER \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This mural of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela is unveiled in Cape Town on Friday as part of Mandela Day celebrations.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LUCASLUCAS LEDWABA \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And on Saturday in South Africa’s Limpopo province, men return home after taking part in a rite of passage.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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