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Africa's week in pictures: 12-18 April 2024

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

News imageEMANUELE CREMASCHI/GETTY IMAGES A woman takes a photos of the artworks.EMANUELE CREMASCHI/GETTY IMAGES
Art lovers take in these works by Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu during Milano Art Week in Italy on Friday...
News imageMARCO BERTORELLO/AFP A woman wearing goggles looks at the camera underwater.MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP
Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses on Tuesday as she prepares for the 2024 Olympics.
News imagePATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP A skateboarder performs a trick at a skate park.PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP
Kenyan skateboarders take part in the Amps & Ramps contest in Nairobi on Saturday.
News imageBIENVENIDO VELASCO/EPA A woman and young boy hold hands and dance.BIENVENIDO VELASCO/EPA
On the same day, people of African descent take part in the Congo dance at a festival in the Central American nation of Panama.
News imageMICHELE SPATARI/AFP Women chant and dance during the celebration for the Shuwalid festival in Harar. Shuwalid is an annual festival celebrated by the Harari people of Ethiopia and marks the end of six days of fasting to compensate omissions during Ramadan.MICHELE SPATARI/AFP
On Tuesday, Ethiopians in the ancient city of Harar celebrate the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year.
News imageLEGNAN KOULA/EPA A picture of late US musician Michael Jackson is painted on the back of a bus in Yopougon, a district of Abidjan.LEGNAN KOULA/EPA
The King of Pop graces this bus in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Friday. Michael Jackson was also crowned the king of a village during a visit to the country in 1992.
News imageISSOUF SANOGO/AFP Burkina Faso's Fientan group composed of deaf and mute people performs contemporary dance during the 13th edition of the African Entertainment Arts Market (MASA) at the Palais de la Culture in Abidjan.ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP
Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso's Fientan group take to the stage at the African Entertainment Arts Market in Ivory Coast on Wednesday...
News imageISSOUF SANOGO/AFP The Danseincolor troupe from Congo Brazzaville performs during the 13th edition of the African Entertainment Arts Market (MASA) at the Palais de la Culture in Abidjan.ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP
Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville.
News imageNURETTIN BOYDAK/GETTY IMAGES Men dunk animal skins into tannery pits.NURETTIN BOYDAK/GETTY IMAGES
Craftsmen dye animal skins at this tannery in Fez, northern Morocco, on Wednesday.
News imageESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS Surfers stand on Surfers stand on Muizenberg beach in the early morning as seasonal mist shrouds the sun in Cape Town.ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS
South African surfers are shrouded in morning mists on Muizenberg beach on Thursday.
News imageLEGNAN KOULA/EPA An Ivorian man participates in a ritual as part of the Dipri festival in Sikensi, south-eastern Ivory Coast.LEGNAN KOULA/EPA
A Dipri festival-goer holds a blade to his tongue on Saturday. Acts like these are part of a community ceremony in south-eastern Ivory Coast of honouring sacrifices made by an ancestor who saved them from hunger.
News imageMOHAMED HOSSAM/EPA A Sudanese man has his hair cut in front of a mirror.MOHAMED HOSSAM/EPA
In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago.
News imageCEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGES A view of the Fadiouth Island, also known as shell island.CEM OZDEL/GETTY IMAGES
Days earlier, handmade items hang next to a wall on Senegal's famous clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island.
News imageDANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP Members of the royal family and a guardian of the throne surround the throne of Mouhammad-Nabil Mfonrifoum Mbombo Njoya (unseen), Sultan King of the Bamouns, ahead of the inauguration ceremony of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in Foumban.DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP
On Saturday in Cameroon, royals and a guardian surround the Bamoun throne...
News imageDANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP A Bamoun warrior responsible of the security of the Sultan King of the Bamouns shoots into the air during the start of the inauguration ceremony of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in Foumban.DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP
And ceremonial gunfire kicks off the official opening of the new Bamoun Kings Museum in the city of Foumban.

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