A selection of this week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
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Starting in Egypt on Friday, Muslims across the continent will celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
Jihed Abidelawi/Reuters
Tunisians celebrate the event on Sunday by drumming and dancing in the streets of the capital Tunis…
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On the same day, young Senegalese Muslims gather at the Seydina Limamou Laie mausoleum in Dakar, the capital.
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A young girl is wandering to enjoy the sunrise.
Ahmed Kingimi/Reuters
A young boy was seen pushing his bicycle through deep water after severe flooding occurred in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Tuesday.
Badr Katumba/AFP
Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who was murdered by her ex-partner, was buried with full military honors on Saturday at her father’s estate in eastern Uganda.
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Ugandan military pays tribute with gun salute…
Badr Katumba/AFP
The youngest daughter is crying while holding a photo of her mother to her chest.
Mohamed Abd El Ghani/Reuters
People relaxing on a private beach at the mouth of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
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Rescuers are trying to exhume survivors after a building collapse killed at least eight people in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday.
Mohamed Messala/EPA
Tuesday marks the beginning of the grape harvest in Tunisia.
From the BBC in Africa this week:
What the murder of an athlete tells us about the safety of women in Kenya Climate change is adding to Somalia’s problems – but there’s still hope Two kidnappings and human trafficking – The life of a sex worker in Sierra Leone “Bipolar Disorder, Color and Me” – Artist’s spreadsheet of emotions Who is behind Sudan’s deadliest attack? Getty Images/BBC
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