Panache, parades and power: Africa's top shots
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
A hot Thursday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is as good a time as any to cool off in the waters of the Indian Ocean...
The next day, near the Great Pyramids in Egypt, excitement builds in the hours before the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Bold blue designs by Bubu Ogisi are showcased in Nigeria at Lagos Fashion Week on Friday.
On the same day, further north in Nigeria's Kwara State, brides-to-be get ready for the Awon mass wedding - an annual event.
Chad triumph over Tunisia in the Fifa Unites women's football series in Morocco on Saturday.
On the same day, Halloween costumes and ghoulish disguises abound at Cape Town's Zombie Walk charity fundraiser in South Africa.
The next day, Rastafarian faithful in the Kenyan town of Rongai celebrate the 95th anniversary of the coronation of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's last emperor.
All Saint's Day in the Christian calendar is traditionally a time to remember the dead. This procession in Fadiouth, Senegal, on Saturday heads to a local cemetery.
People in the city of Laayoune, in Western Sahara, take to the streets on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Green March, when Morocco marched in to the disputed territory. It came several days after the UN said genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty was the "most feasible solution" to the conflict.
On Friday, naval officers rehearse ahead of the inauguration of Zanzibar's president. The archipelago, off the east coast of Africa, is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania...
Mourners on mainland Tanzania attend the funeral of a young opposition Chadema party official on Thursday. The party says he was among hundreds it believes were killed in a crackdown on post-election protests that saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan elected.
On Monday in Guinea, military ruler Gen Mamadi Doumbouya arrives at the Supreme Court to formally submit his candidacy for December's presidential election. In so doing, he has broken an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government.
And on Wednesday, the so-called Beaver supermoon rises over the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
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