Africa's week in pictures: 17-23 August 2018
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.
Image source, ReutersA girl plays in a swamp on Sunday near the South Sudanese town of Nyal, where her family is now living having fled their home during the civil war.
Image source, ReutersA camel trader's son smiles at a livestock market on Friday ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival outside Egypt's capital, Cairo…
Image source, AFPThe next day, money is counted at the livestock market in Hargeisa in the self-declared republic of Somaliland. During the Eid festivities, Muslims who can afford it buy an animal to sacrifice...
Image source, AFPEid is also a time to dress up. In Mali's capital, Bamako, on Monday a girl decorates a woman's foot with henna…
Image source, AFPOn the same day - the eve of Eid - this customer in Bamako shows off her tattooed henna hands and manicured nails…
Image source, AFPOn Tuesday, a roadside barber shaves a man for the Eid events taking place in Ibafo in south-western Nigeria...
Image source, AFPOn the same day in Ibafo, a girl kneels near her father at the Eid prayers...
Image source, ReutersDuring the prayers in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, a boy runs past with a toy gun, often given to children as Eid presents.
Image source, ReutersOn Wednesday, African migrants celebrate after entering an immigration centre in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta…
Image source, EPAAbout 200 migrants managed to jump the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta. These young men perform for the camera on the seafront.
On Tuesday, women in the Ethiopian city of Mekelle go to the market ahead of the annual Ashenda festival to celebrate the Virgin Mary...
The BBC's Girmay Gebru says heavy rains on Wednesday do not stop the revellers, who plait their hair in an elaborate design called Ga'me, from attending the event at a stadium.
Image source, EPAOn Monday, someone with a large load in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi passes by the family home of Kofi Annan, the former UN chief who died on Saturday.
Image source, AFPA priestess attends a festival on Friday for the Yoruba fertility goddess Osun, in Osogbo in south-western Nigeria…
Image source, AFPThousands travel to the festival, with believers saying the river waters by the Osun Sacred Grove can heal diseases and "cure" infertility.
Image source, EPAStudents in South Africa protest on Wednesday outside parliament in Cape Town, pleading for amnesty for fellow students convicted after violence during #FeesMustFall protests.
Image source, AFPUgandan opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine appears in court on treason charges on Thursday. He has been in custody for more than a week and is alleged to have been badly beaten by soldiers.
Image source, AFPAnd a man shows off his chapatti-making skills at a festival on Sunday in Uganda's capital to celebrate the "Rolex". This is the fast food of choice in Kampala: a vegetable omelette wrapped in a chapatti.
Pictures from AFP, BBC, EPA and Reuters