{"id":6040,"date":"2024-08-02T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T07:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-26-july-1-august-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T07:45:49","slug":"africas-week-in-pictures-26-july-1-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/africas-week-in-pictures-26-july-1-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s week in pictures: 26 July-1 August 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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\" Krisztian Elek \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

World-renowned South African artist Breeze Yoko stands in front of his newly created mural in the English town of Margate on Wednesday. A local group teamed up with him to make murals ahead of the town’s annual soul festival.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JungJung Yeon-Je \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Senegal’s table tennis star Ibrahima Diaw has his eyes on the ball as he serves to Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Tinga at the Paris Olympics on Monday. He lost 4-3.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AmanuelAmanuel Sileshi \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Saturday, a group of men play foosball, or table football, in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ClodaghClodagh Kilcoyne \/ Reuters <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Monday, South African swimmer Tatjana Smith dives into the Olympic pool in Paris hoping to win the 100m breastroke….<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"EvgeniaEvgenia Novozhenina \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

She wins the race for her country in an emotional victory. <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MustafaMustafa Yalcin \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And the taste of success is sweet as she bites into her Olympic gold medal.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BensonBenson Ibeabuchi \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

With banners and megaphones in hand, Nigerians take to the streets of Lagos to protest against the high cost of living on Thursday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"PaulPaul Botes \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Sunday, the sound of sweet harmony fills the University of South Africa in the capital, Pretoria, as US conductor William Eddins directs the Africa United Youth Orchestra at a rehearsal. <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"IssoufIssouf Sanogo \/ AFP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In Ivory Coast a woodcutter chops logs at the Abobodoume beach on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MohamedMohamed Abd El Ghany \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the same day, a young girl cools off under a water fountain amid a heatwave in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada…<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MohamedMohamed Abd El Ghany \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While other children use bubbles to fend off the heat.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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