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Africa's week in pictures: 21-28 January 2021

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:

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image captionOn Tuesday a man rides a horse in front of the Giza pyramids near Egypt's capital Cairo.
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image captionOn the same day the waves crash onto the shore in Libya's capital Tripoli.
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image captionOn Wednesday a traditional group performs funeral rites for the former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, who died last year aged 73 of an undisclosed illness...
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image caption... he is given a full state funeral and is buried in the military cemetery in Ghana's capital Accra.
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image captionOn Saturday towns on Mozambique's coast struggle with flooding following Cyclone Eloise, including at this school in Beira.
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image captionStudents in Mali's capital Bamako start a new school year on Monday.
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image captionOn Friday a morgue attendant in Johannesburg, South Africa, tends to bodies of those who have died from coronavirus.
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image captionThe following day a Rwandan UN peacekeeper patrols the road leading to Damara in Central African Republic...
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image caption... the peacekeepers monitor after skirmishes took place last week as rebels attempted to overthrow the president.
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image captionOn Tuesday Tunisian police block anti-government protesters from reaching parliament.

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