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

Getty Images A boy kicks a ball while shooting at a football net along a beach in Libya's eastern coastal city of Benghazi on August 22, 2020.Getty Images

On Saturday a game of football on the beach in Benghazi, Libya, turned into an acrobatics demonstration.

Getty Images South Africa's Ruswahl Samaai jumps 8,09 in his final jump to win the men's long jump event during the Diamond League Athletics Meeting at Stockholm stadium on August 23, 2020.Getty Images

On Sunday South Africa’s Ruswahl Saaai wins the men’s long jump competition at the Diamond League Athletics Meeting at Stockholm.

Getty Images Guests gather between corn fields to attend a traditional wedding celebration in the village of Shamma in Egypt's northern Nile Delta province of Menoufia on August 21, 2020.Getty Images

On Friday wedding guests mingle between the corn fields in Egypt’s Menoufia province.

Getty Images Sudanese boys make their way through a flooded street at alqamayir area in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, on August 26, 2020.Getty Images

On Wednesday resident’s in Sudan’s second city Omdurman struggled through a flood…

Getty Images A Sudanese boy wades through a flooded street at alqamayir area in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, on August 26, 2020.Getty Images

… some say they are the worst floods Sudan has seen in more than 70 years.

Getty Images People stand near the cargo plane belonging to a local operator that crashed seven kilometres west of the Juba International airport shortly after takeoff on August 22, 2020, killing four passengers and three crew, with one survivor. - According to the Transport Minister Madut Biar Yol, the crew members were Russian while the passengers were all South Sudanese. The plane owned by local company South West Aviation had been carrying cash to the Wau region in the country's northwest for Juba-based Opportunity Bank.Getty Images

On Saturday a plane crashes shortly after take off in South Sudan’s capital Juba, killing the four South Sudanese passengers and the three Russian crew members.

Getty Images Members of the Red Ants carry a mattress on their heads during a joint eviction operation between the Red Ants and the South African Police Service (SAPS) of people that illegally occupied apartment buildings in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg, on August 25, 2020.Getty Images

On Tuesday South Africa’s “red ants” evict people illegally occupying apartment buildings in Rooderpoort, near Johannesburg…

Getty Images Securities wait for the arrival of Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine as he becomes President of his new political party National Unity Platform (NUP) at NUP headquaters in Kampala, Uganda, on August 21, 2020. - Kyagulanyi plans to run for President in 2021 elections against the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power for 32 years.Getty Images

… also all in red, security officers wait for the Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine in the capital Kampala on Friday…

Getty Images Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi (C) aka Bobi Wine arrives to the headquarters of his new political party National Unity Platform (NUP) as he is nominated as President of the party in Kampala, Uganda, on August 21, 2020. - Kyagulanyi plans to run for President in 2021 elections against the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power for 32 years.Getty Images

… the popstar-turned-politician, centre, arrives at the headquarters of the National Unity Platform to be made its president.

Getty Images Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (2L) walks at the International Airport in Bamako upon his arrival on August 22, 2020 next to by Malick Diaw (L), the Vice President of the CNSP (National Committee for the Salvation of the People). - A delegation of West African leaders headed by former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan arrived in the Malian capital Bamako on August 22 on a mission to restore order after a military coup.Getty Images

On Saturday Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan, second from the left, arrives in Mali’s capital Bamako as a mediator after the military took over in a coup…

Getty Images Demonstrators gather around a group of Malian soldiers during a protest to support the Malian army and the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) at the Independence square in Bamako, on August 21, 2020, 3 days after the military overthrow of the President. - Opposition supporters flooded into Bamako's central square on August 21 to celebrate the military overthrow of the President, which their leaders hailed as the "victory of the Malian people". Thousands gathered in the capital's Independence Square, the birthplace of a months-long protest movement, many of them draped in Mali's national flag and blasting on vuvuzela horn.Getty Images

…A day before, on Friday, huge crowds gather to support the Malian soldiers.

Getty Images Residents clash with South African Police Service (SAPS) officers in Eldorado Park, near Johannesburg, on August 27, 2020, during a protest by community members after a 16-year old boy was reported dead.Getty Images

On Thursday, protesters hit the streets near Johannesburg in South Africa after a 16-year-old boy is reported dead.

Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, EPA and Reuters.



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