A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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On Saturday a game of football on the beach in Benghazi, Libya, turned into an acrobatics demonstration.
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On Sunday South Africa’s Ruswahl Saaai wins the men’s long jump competition at the Diamond League Athletics Meeting at Stockholm.
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On Friday wedding guests mingle between the corn fields in Egypt’s Menoufia province.
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On Wednesday resident’s in Sudan’s second city Omdurman struggled through a flood…
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… some say they are the worst floods Sudan has seen in more than 70 years.
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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.
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On Tuesday South Africa’s “red ants” evict people illegally occupying apartment buildings in Rooderpoort, near Johannesburg…
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… also all in red, security officers wait for the Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine in the capital Kampala on Friday…
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… the popstar-turned-politician, centre, arrives at the headquarters of the National Unity Platform to be made its president.
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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…
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…A day before, on Friday, huge crowds gather to support the Malian soldiers.
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On Thursday, protesters hit the streets near Johannesburg in South Africa after a 16-year-old boy is reported dead.