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Africa's week in pictures: 21-27 August 2020

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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image captionOn Saturday a game of football on the beach in Benghazi, Libya, turned into an acrobatics demonstration.
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image captionOn Sunday South Africa's Ruswahl Saaai wins the men's long jump competition at the Diamond League Athletics Meeting at Stockholm.
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image captionOn Friday wedding guests mingle between the corn fields in Egypt's Menoufia province.
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image captionOn Wednesday resident's in Sudan's second city Omdurman struggled through a flood...
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image caption... some say they are the words floods Sudan has seen in more than 70 years.
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image captionOn Saturday a plane crashes shortly after take off in South Sudan's capital Juba, killing the four South Sudanese passengers and the three Russian crew members.
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image captionOn Tuesday South Africa's "red ants" evict people illegally occupying apartment buildings in Rooderpoort, near Johannesburg...
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image caption... also all in red, security officers wait for the Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine in the capital Kampala on Friday...
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image caption... the popstar-turned-politician, centre, arrives at the headquarters of the National Unity Platform to be made its president.
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image captionOn Saturday Nigeria's former president Goodluck Jonathan, second from the left, arrives in Mali's capital Bamako as a mediator after the military took over in a coup...
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image caption...A day before, on Friday, huge crowds gather to support the Malian soldiers.
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image captionOn Thursday, protesters hit the streets near Johannesburg in South Africa after a 16-year-old boy is reported dead.
Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, EPA and Reuters.

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