A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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On Monday, this lion cub is one of five transported from a private zoo in Ukraine to a rehabilitation centre in South Africa.
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Ballet students perform the Nutcracker at Nairobi’s national theatre the day before.
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A labourer walks past a wall at southern Egypt’s White Mountain limestone quarry on Saturday.
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Also on Saturday, university graduates cut a cake together during celebrations in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
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On Friday, Eritrean artist Nebay Abraha works on a painting in his studio in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
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Also on Friday, shocked Nairobi residents look at the debris of a six-storey building that collapsed in the early hours of the morning, killing at least 10 people.
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Heavy rain obscures a window in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday.
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South Africa’s Zozibini Tunzi is crowned Miss Universe at the pageant in Atlanta, US. “I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me was never considered to be beautiful,” she said.
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Bird Man, the artwork of Senegalese artist Soly Cissé, looms over the Banco National Park in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Sunday. The exhibit is part of the first Green Arts Biennale.
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Horsemen dash through Addis Ababa to greet Ethiopia’s President Abiy Ahmed on Thursday, as the Nobel Prize winner returns from a special ceremony in Norway.
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And the sun sets over Praslin Island in the Seychelles on Friday.
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