A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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Cameroonian football fans dress up in their finest as the Indomitable Lions take on Switzerland on Thursday at the World Cup in Qatar, their team though go on to lose 1-0...
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Tunisia hold off Denmark and secure a 0-0 draw as this family of fans take in the action on Tuesday...
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Ghana's Black Stars arrive in the Qatari capital, Doha, in style on Friday...
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The competition kicks off on Sunday and these children in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, enjoy the action at a public screening.
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On Monday, a desperate resident of a township in the South African city of Cape Town tries to douse the flames that are damaging his home.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is welcomed in Vietnam as he flies into Hanoi on Thursday on a trip to improve ties with the country.
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A photographer snaps a new graduate who became a member of South Sudan's army at a ceremony in Malakal on Monday...
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New recruits are welcomed into the police force at the same time.
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King Charles III makes South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa laugh on Tuesday as he hosts a state banquet in his honour - the first of his reign.
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On the same day in Angola's capital, Luanda, fans of kuduro musician Nagrelha hold a procession in his honour following his untimely death from lung cancer.
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People in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo practice group yoga stretches in a square on Sunday.
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Shortly before Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives at the country's new parliament on Wednesday a soldier adjusts a comrade's uniform to make sure everything is perfect.
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On Friday, a woman in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, rides a bicycle that is being loaned out as part of a project to encourage a cleaner environment.
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