South African actress Thuso Mbedu attends Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project party in Hollywood, United States on Saturday.
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A woman walks past a mural of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town on Thursday, which would have been the late South African president’s 106th birthday.
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The sign in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, on Wednesday marked the westernmost point of the African continent – a site that has been earmarked for construction by two American hotel chains.
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A man decorates this polling station in Kigali with the colors of the Rwandan flag on the eve of Rwanda’s presidential election. Paul Kagame was declared the winner with just over 99 percent of the vote, a poll that was heavily criticized by human rights groups.
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South African tennis star Kgothatso Montjane and Japan’s Yui Kamiji won the women’s wheelchair doubles final at the Wimbledon Open in the UK on Sunday.
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Swimmers dive into the sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday.
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A statue of King Tutankhamun was among ancient Egyptian artifacts put on display at a museum in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.
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Makoma Komi Mohale (left), the star of the South African historical drama “Queen Mojagi,” and Masutan Risekele (right), who plays his mother, watch the season premiere in Johannesburg on Friday.
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Kenya has sent 200 more police officers to join the 200 already in Haiti to combat rampant gang violence. Their mission comes as Kenyan police are under scrutiny for alleged abuses and extrajudicial killings at home.
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Ghanaian UFC fighter Abdul Razak Alhassan, left, faces opponent Cody Brundage during a weigh-in ceremony in the United States on Saturday.
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French-Cameroonian singer Yamê performed at the Vieilles Charrues festival in western France on Friday.
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French-Ivorian actress Claudia Thabo took part in the Olympic torch relay in Paris on Monday.
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The man enjoyed surfing at Lido Beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
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Cars drove along a tree-lined street in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Tuesday.
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