Deity dolls and people power: Africa’s top shots
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
Believers bring dolls of deities associated with twins – called hoxo – to Benin’s Twins Festival in Ouidah on Sunday. [ABADJAYE JUSTIN SODOGANDJI / AFP / GETTY IMAGES]
Children clean classrooms in this suburb of Dakar on Saturday before the new school year begins in Senegal. [JEROME FAVRE / EPA]
Renowned South African choreographer Mthuthuzeli November, who began ballet dancing at the relatively late age of 15, poses at France’s Opera Bastille on Friday. [JOEL SAGET / AFP / GETTY IMAGES]
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On Sunday in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, dog owners and their canine companions gather for Dogtoberfest. [GERALD ANDERSON / ANADOLU / GETTY IMAGES]
Malian singer Mariam Doumbia takes part in a photoshoot in France on Wednesday. Her husband and longtime musical partner Amadou Bagayoko died in April at the age of 70. [JOEL SAGET / AFP / GETTY IMAGES]
Women wear their finery at the opening of a new sports club in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on Sunday. [ABDULLAH DOMA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES]
On Tuesday night a full moon appears as if suspended between the minarets of this mosque in el-Shorouk, Egypt. [KHALED DESOUKI / AFP / GETTY IMAGES]
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In a village in eastern Egypt on Friday, men dual on horseback in a game called al-Marmah. [SAYED HASSAN / GETTY IMAGES]
Children climb what remains of their home in northern Egypt. This and many other houses in the Nile delta have been flooded. The prime minister says some residents knowingly built their homes in the river’s flood zone. [MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY / REUTERS]
Bedecked in the colours of the national flag and with Go Lions painted on his motorbike, this Cameroonian man drives through the streets of central Yaoundé on Wednesday ahead of the national football team’s 2-0 victory against Mauritius. [ZOHRA BENSEMRA / REUTERS]
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Thursday sees Seychellois cast their votes in a second round run-off between the current president and the leader of the governing party. Election results are expected within days. [GABRIEL ROBERT-GIRONCELLE / REUTERS]
Weavers and other craft specialists bring their wares to the annual handicrafts fair in Tunisia’s capital city on Tuesday. [MOHAMED MESSARA / EPA]
Also on Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, canoeists glide over the waters of the Emmarentia Dam at sunrise. [KIM LUDBROOK / EPA]
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From the BBC in Africa this week:
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