{"id":34178,"date":"2025-08-01T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-25-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:57:14","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 25"},"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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\"FAREEDFAREED KOTB \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bathers float on salt lakes in the Siwa Oasis, north-western Egypt, on Monday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"TAHSINTAHSIN CEYLAN \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Further east the next day, bioluminescence is captured underwater in the Red Sea…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"TAHSINTAHSIN CEYLAN \/ ANADOLU \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"FREDRIKFREDRIK LERNERYD \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hundreds of country music-lovers head to International Cowboy Day in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"PHILLPHILL MAGAKOE \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the same day, young ballerinas warm up at Mballet Dance Academy in South Africa’s Thembisa township.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"GIANLUIGIGIANLUIGI GUERCIA \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In the same country days later, ostriches wander around a farm in Oudtshoorn.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"PATRICKPATRICK MEINHARDT \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As the rainy season starts in Senegal, high priests from the Lebou community gather for a divination ceremony on Sunday. Known as satigues, they deliver predictions on events that may occur in the coming year.<\/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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Contestants from Cameroon (L) and Nigeria get ready to take each other on at the Africa Armwrestling Championship in Abuja on Friday. Here the referee checks the position of their hands before the bout begins.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MOHAMEDMOHAMED MESSARA \/ EPA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The following day in Tunisia, people dressed as thespians wave from this float at the Aoussou Carnival in Sousse.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Passengers on this bus returning to Khartoum on Monday are among the more than 12 million people who have been forced from their homes since Sudan’s civil war began over two years ago. Famine<\/a> and genocide<\/a> have taken hold in parts of the country, according to the UN and US respectively.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MAHMUDMAHMUD TURKIA \/ AFP \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And as the sun sets over the Libyan coast on Friday, people bathe in the sea off Tripoli.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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