This week’s best photo picks from across the continent and beyond:
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Miss Universe Kenya contestants prepare backstage in Nairobi on Friday…
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They were warmly cheered by the audience.
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On the same day, models displayed clothes designed by Nigerian fashion designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK.
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Mali basketball player Maimouna Haidara wears colorful hair during a match against Venezuela in Mexico. The West African team won 88-66.
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A man makes decorative Khayamiya textiles at a covered market in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday.
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Charlie, a 42-year-old retired circus elephant, was moved to a game reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Wednesday.
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A customer thanked a robot for serving her food at the Robot Cafe in Nairobi on Thursday.
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South Africa’s Dricus Du Plessis and Nigeria’s Israel Adesanya embrace after their UFC middleweight title fight on Sunday, which Du Plessis won.
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People wave flags during an Independence Day parade in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, on Saturday.
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Christians carry an image of the Virgin Mary during the Feast of Our Lady of Trapani in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on Friday.
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Fans in Goma were excited ahead of a Fally Ipupa concert on Friday. The Congolese singer ended up cancelling a series of shows – promising refunds, but many ticket buyers complained they have not yet been paid.
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Kenyan rap duo Wadagliz poses for the camera during an interview in Nairobi. Their hit song Anguka Nayo (meaning “Go with the Flow”) has become the soundtrack for recent youth-led anti-government rallies.
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South African actress Abigail Kubeka was honoured on Saturday at an event in Johannesburg to mark her 67-year career and contribution to the arts.
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Residents of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, were flooded on Wednesday, with residents travelling by boat. More than 16,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since mid-July.
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Burundian journalist and government commentator Floriane Irangabiye thanked her legal team who pleaded with the president to release her from prison, eventually granting her a formal pardon on Friday.
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Justin Monjiko holds his child, who has been cured of malaria, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday. A leading World Health Organization expert said the virus is “not a new coronavirus” because authorities know exactly how to control its spread.
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Food aid was finally allowed into Sudan’s Darfur region on Wednesday for the first time in six months, a breakthrough that comes after international pressure to avert a full-blown famine in which the United Nations estimates more than half the country’s population needs assistance.
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Malawi’s main opposition party, the DPP, held a party congress on Sunday, at which former President Peter Mutharika was formally nominated to run in next year’s presidential election.
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Fisheries engineer Ramla Bouhlel handles a seaweed plant in the coastal city of Monastir, Tunisia, on Friday. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WFF), this seaweed “creates a vital habitat for thousands of marine life species.”
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A supermoon, also known as a blue moon, rose over Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday evening.
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