Africa's week in pictures: 26 July - 1 August 2019
A selection of photos from across Africa and Africans elsewhere this week:
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At an entrepreneurs' forum in Nigeria on Thursday, a photographer captures this shot of a participant's Africa-shaped tattoo.
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A woman walks past this mural in Johannesburg's fashionable Maboneng neighbourhood on Tuesday.
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A young Kenyan makes her voice heard alongside dozens of other protesters calling for urgent investment into nationwide cancer care on Thursday in Nairobi.
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Among the acts at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe are five Kenyan acrobats known as The Black Blues Brothers. They're pictured here in the Scottish capital on Sunday.
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Belgian-Congolese rapper Damso talks to the crowd at Switzerland's Paleo Festival on Friday.
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The next day, an Angolan woman competes in the mixed 4x100m Freestyle heats at the World Swimming Championships in South Korea.
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Volunteers and state officials in Ethiopia planted millions of trees on Monday. The government says it set a new record by planting more than 350 million trees in a single day...
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Critics say the government is using the tree-planting drive to distract the public from its struggles to resolve ethnic conflicts that have forced some 2.5 million people from their homes.
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Greater Bamboo Lemurs, which are native to Madagascar, are endangered with only 1,000 left in the wild. This month-old cub is pictured in a zoo in France on Thursday.
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And on Thursday at Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, a seller poses with one of the hundreds of camels for sale.
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