{"id":40802,"date":"2025-11-08T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-31-october-6-november-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:47:37","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-31-october-6-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-31-october-6-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 31 October-6 November 2025"},"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

A hot Thursday in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is as good a time as any to cool off in the waters of the Indian Ocean…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmrAmr Abdallah Dalsh \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"OlympiaOlympia de Maismont \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bold blue designs by Bubu Ogisi are showcased in Nigeria at Lagos Fashion Week on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ToyinToyin Addokun \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the same day, further north in Nigeria’s Kwara State, brides-to-be get ready for the Awon mass wedding – an annual event.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JalalJalal Morchidi \/ EPA \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Chad triumph over Tunisia in the Fifa Unites women’s football series in Morocco on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BrentonBrenton Geach \/Gallo Images \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the same day, Halloween costumes and ghoulish disguises abound at Cape Town’s Zombie Walk charity fundraiser in South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"GeraldGerald Anderson \/ Anadolu \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The next day, Rastafarian faithful in the Kenyan town of Rongai celebrate the 95th anniversary of the coronation of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"PatrickPatrick Meinhardt \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

All Saint’s Day in the Christian calendar is traditionally a time to remember the dead. This procession in Fadiouth, Senegal, on Saturday heads to a local cemetery.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JalalJalal Morchidi \/ EPA \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MarcoMarco Longari \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Friday, naval officers rehearse ahead of the inauguration of Zanzibar’s president. The archipelago, off the east coast of Africa, is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mourners on mainland Tanzania attend the funeral of a young opposition Chadema party official on Thursday. The party says he was among hundreds it believes were killed in a crackdown on post-election protests that saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan elected<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"LucLuc Gnago \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JeromeJerome Favre \/ EPA \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And on Wednesday, the so-called Beaver supermoon rises over the Senegalese capital, Dakar.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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