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Africa's week in pictures: 8-14 October 2021

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A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

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Kenya's Diana Kipyogei is crowned after winning the Boston Marathon on Monday.

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This mural of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who turned 90 last week, is restored on Friday in Cape Town, after it was defaced with a racist slur.

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This fan makes her allegiances clear at South Africa's football World Cup qualifier against Ethiopia on Tuesday, which Bafana Bafana won 1-0.

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This plaque marks the entrance to the Foumban Royal Palace in western Cameroon...

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On Monday, 28-year-old Mfonrifum Nabil Mbombo Njoya was inaugurated as the new Sultan of Bamoun.

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Spectators watch the Rally of Morocco in the Merzouga region on Sunday.

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Activists turned up on Tuesday to listen to proceedings at Botswana's top court, where the government is seeking to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalised homosexuality.

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On Sunday, 40 days after a massacre at the Chena Teklehaymanot Church in Ethiopia's Amhara region, personal items belonging to the dead sit on a windowsill. Amhara officials say Tigrayan forces are to blame, which they in turn deny.

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A herd marches through Kenya's Amboseli National Park, where there has been a baby-elephant boom.

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Somali marine forces patrol coastal waters on Wednesday, following a legal ruling on the disputed sea border with Kenya that largely favoured Somalia.

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A flock of birds takes to the sky as a police helicopter flies over a parade in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Saturday.

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The next day in South Africa, people take part in the One Sky One World International Kite Fly.

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And on Thursday in Mauritius, a man washes his month-old puppy in the Indian Ocean.

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