Goggles, bubbles and puddles: 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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Art lovers instrumentality successful these works by Kenyan creator Thandiwe Muriu during Milano Art Week successful Italy connected Friday...

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Italian-Nigerian swimmer Sara Curtis, 17, poses connected Tuesday arsenic she prepares for the 2024 Olympics.

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Kenyan skateboarders instrumentality portion successful the Amps & Ramps contention successful Nairobi connected Saturday.

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On the aforesaid day, radical of African descent instrumentality portion successful the Congo creation astatine a festival successful the Central American federation of Panama.

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On Tuesday, Ethiopians successful the past metropolis of Harar observe the Shuwalid Festival which follows Ramadan each year.

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The King of Pop graces this autobus successful Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, connected Friday. Michael Jackson was besides crowned the king of a colony during a sojourn to the state successful 1992.

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Deaf and mute dancers from Burkina Faso's Fientan radical instrumentality to the signifier astatine the African Entertainment Arts Market successful Ivory Coast connected Wednesday...

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Also performing are the Danseincolor troupe from Congo-Brazzaville.

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Craftsmen dye carnal skins astatine this tannery successful Fez, bluish Morocco, connected Wednesday.

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South African surfers are shrouded successful greeting mists connected Muizenberg formation connected Thursday.

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A Dipri festival-goer holds a leaf to his lingua connected Saturday. Acts similar these are portion of a assemblage ceremonial successful south-eastern Ivory Coast of honouring sacrifices made by an ancestor who saved them from hunger.

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In Egypt connected Monday, a Sudanese antheral gets his hairsbreadth chopped successful a Cairo barbershop. Almost to fractional a cardinal Sudanese refugees person crossed into Egypt since warfare broke retired successful their location state a twelvemonth ago.

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Days earlier, handmade items bent adjacent to a partition connected Senegal's celebrated clamshell island, officially called Fadiouth Island.

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On Saturday successful Cameroon, royals and a guardian situation the Bamoun throne...

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And ceremonial gunfire kicks disconnected the authoritative opening of the caller Bamoun Kings Museum successful the metropolis of Foumban.

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