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Africa's week in pictures: 24-30 August 2018

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.

News imageReuters A girl picking a mango in al-Giza, Egypt - Monday 27 August 2018Reuters
An eight-year-old girl harvests mangoes in the Egyptian village of al-Giza on Monday....
News imageAFP A farmer checking mangoes on laid out on the floor in Al-Giza, EgyptAFP
This farmer checks the picked fruit under the trees before they are packaged up for sale.
News imageReuters Schoolchildren, one with a phone decorated with the British flag, wait for UK Prime Minister Theresa May at the ID Mkhize Secondary School in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa - Tuesday 28 August 2018Reuters
On Tuesday, South African children wait for UK Prime Minister Theresa May to visit their school in Gugulethu...
News imagePA Prime Minister Theresa May dancing at ID Mkhize Secondary School in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa - Tuesday 28 August 2018PA
Mrs May has gone viral this week after she attempted some dance moves at the school...
News imageEPA UK leader Theresa May greeting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria - Wednesday 29 August 2018EPA
The UK leader was on a three-nation tour of the continent. On Wednesday, she has great rapport with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari - but no dancing is on the cards.
News imageEPA Senegal President Macky Sall greets German leader Angela Merkel in Dakar, Senegal - Wednesday 29 August 2018EPA
But on the same day, German leader Angela Merkel and her Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall look like they are about to take to the dance floor as she is welcomed in Dakar...
News imageAFP A presidential guard marching outside the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal - Wednesday 29 August 2018AFP
The reception took place at the presidential palace in the Senegalese capital - where this gendarme is keeping guard.
News imageReuters Members of Namibia's delegation at a service to return human remains in Berlin, Germany - Wednesday 29 August 2018Reuters
In the German capital, Berlin, on Wednesday Namibians attend a church service where the human remains of people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia were returned...
News imageReuters Namibians protest outside a ceremony in Berlin, Germany to hand back human remains from Germany to Namibia following the 1904-1908 genocide against the Herero and Nama - Wednesday 29 August 2018Reuters
Tens of thousands of Herero and Nama were murdered in response to an anti-colonial uprising 100 years ago - and the community is demanding reparations from Germany.
News imageEPA Rival protesters - some pro-Palestinian, others pro-Israel - stand outside parliament in Cape Town, South Africa - Friday 24 August 2018EPA
Outside South Africa's parliament on Friday, two rival protests - one pro-Palestinian, the other pro-Israel - take place amicably.
News imageGetty Images A Congolese woman stands in the ocean for the first time guided by an American woman during during a programme to help integrate new refugees in Maine, the US - Tuesday 28 August 2018Getty Images
On Tuesday, a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo stands in the ocean for the first time during a programme in Maine to help integrate new refugees to the US.
News imageGetty Images A tri-athlete putting on goggles on a beach in Port Elizabeth, South African - Thursday 30 August 2018Getty Images
A tri-athlete prepares to go training on a beach in Port Elizabeth in South African ahead of an Ironman competition next month.
News imageReuters A woman on a weighing scale outside a bank observed by two other women in Tunis, Tunisia - Thursday 30 August 2018Reuters
On the same day, women use a scale in front of the bank in Tunisia's capital to weigh themselves.
News imageEPA A man sorts through electronic waste at the Agbogbloshi electronic waste site in Accra, Ghana - Monday 27 August 2018EPA
A man sorts through leads at the Agbogbloshi electronic waste site in Ghana's capital, Accra, on Monday…
News imageEPA Men burning electronic waste in at the Agbogbloshi electronic waste site in Accra, Ghana - Monday 27 August 2018EPA
Heavy and precious metals are extracted by burning the cables so that they can be reused.
News imageAFP Uganda acrobats performing in Kampala, Uganda - Saturday 25 August 2018AFP
Acrobats perform during the Royal Ascot Goat Races in Uganda's capital, Kampala, on Saturday...
News imageAFP Goats racing at the Royal Ascot Goat Races in Kampala, Uganda - Saturday 25 August 2018AFP
It is a charity goat race event - and parody of Britain's famous horse race...
News imageAFP A woman taking a selfie at the Royal Ascot Goat Races in Kampala, Uganda - Saturday 25 August 2018AFP
And, like Ascot, it is a time for the fashionistas to show off.
News imageAFP A man blows a vuvuzela during the official inauguration ceremony of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare, Zimbabwe - Sunday 26 August 2018AFP
A man blows a vuvuzela during the official inauguration ceremony of Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday.
News imageReuters A soldier lowers the Union Jack at State House in Nairobi, Kenya - Thursday 30 August 2018Reuters
And a soldier lowers the union jack on Thursday after a news conference at Kenya's State House on the last day of Mrs May's African tour.

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