Blooms, balls and blunts: Africa's top shots

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A enactment of the week's champion photos from crossed the continent and beyond:

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On Saturday, pro-cannabis demonstrators successful South African telephone connected the authorities to velocity up legalisation.

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Aya Nakamura poses for photographs astatine New York's Met Gala connected Monday. The Malian-born, French-raised vocalist suffered a racist backlash erstwhile she was mooted arsenic a performer for the forthcoming Paris Olympics Games.

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Young South Sudanese refugees amusement their footballing prowess astatine an academy successful Egypt connected Friday.

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On the aforesaid day, this worker from the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army patrols a exile campy successful Algeria for radical from the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

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Worshippers people the eve of Ethiopian Orthodox Easter successful Ethiopia's Tigray portion connected Sunday.

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Tourists manus a banana to a monkey connected the borderline of Ivory Coast's ineffable Gbeupleu wood connected Saturday.

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On the aforesaid day, synchronised swimming duo Nadine Barsoum and Hana Hiekal of Egypt vie astatine the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup successful France.

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A devastating gathering illness connected Tuesday trapped dozens of radical successful the South African metropolis of George - the hunt for survivors is ongoing.

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On Monday, citizens clasp a vigil for civilians killed successful a mortar onslaught connected a campy for displaced radical successful the Democratic Republic of Congo. The US and Congolese officials accidental the occurrence came from subject positions held by Rwanda and the M23 rebels. But Kigali denies this and claims DR Congo is to blame.

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And connected Saturday, successful The Gambia's capital, Banjul, radical beryllium and locomotion beside the ocean.

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