A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent:
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Fightfighters in Nigeria work to extinguish a blaze at Balogun market in the city of Lagos on Wednesday…
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The sprawling market area is known for its fabric and clothing stalls.
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On Saturday, a food vendor, known in Nigeria as a “Mama Put”, sits by a stall in the capital, Abuja. Mama Put is one of 29 Nigerian-English words added to the Oxford English Dictionary this month…
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On the same day, words used in Nigeria that were already in the dictionary are seen on a Scrabble board in Abuja…
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The word game is popular in Nigeria and here players in the capital face each other at a Scrabble event.
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On Wednesday, a health worker screens passengers after their arrival at the international airport in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
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A Kenyan farmer on Friday holds up a desert locust, which has turned yellow – meaning it has reached sexual maturity. Locust swarms are sweeping across the region, leaving devastation in their wake.
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Hymns are sung at a special service on Sunday at St Stephen’s Anglican church in Nairobi, attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a visit to the country.
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On Tuesday, friends of prominent Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni carry the 36-year-old’s coffin – honouring her fight for gender equality in the Muslim country where women often do not take part in funerals.
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Replica statues of pharaonic Queen Nefertiti are seen at the workshop in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Monday.
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Children enjoy a ride at an amusement park in the Libyan town of Tajura, near the capital, Tripoli, on Friday…
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Four days a later, a Libyan breeder of Arabian horses trains a steed at his farm in the eastern city of Benghazi.
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Villagers flee spiralling violence in northern Burkina Faso on Monday. Aid agencies say the number of people displaced there increased tenfold last year – to more than 500,000 people.
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The next day, motorcyclists protest about acute petrol shortages in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, as they queue at a garage.
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A farm worker in a tobacco field in Zimbabwe carries freshly harvested leaves on Wednesday.
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The next day, a man uses his mobile phone at the launch of an MTN mobile money service in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg…
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And also on Thursday, Johannesburg resident and mountain climber Saray Khumalo, the first black woman to climb Everest, is pictured overlooking the city.
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