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Africa's week in pictures: 5 - 11 February 2021

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

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image captionMayar Sherif made history on Tuesday at the Australian Open by becoming the first Egyptian woman to win a main-draw match at a tennis Grand Slam. Here, two days later, she narrowly loses to Slovenia's Kaja Juvan.
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image captionOn Tuesday in France, Ethiopian 3000m runners Lamecha Girma, Getnet Wale and Selemon Barega compete at the World Athletics Indoor Tour final, which Getnet went on to win.
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image captionAlso competing on Tuesday was triple-jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango from Burkina Faso, who broke the indoor world record last month.
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image captionThe next day in Angola's capital Luanda, pupils gather for their first day back since schools were closed 11 months ago to halt the spread of coronavirus.
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image captionInvading locusts are a tasty snack for this farmer's dog in eastern Kenya on Saturday. Huge numbers of these pests are decimating essential food crops in parts of East Africa for a second year running, with Somalia declaring a state of emergency.
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image captionNew coin designs honouring Egypt's health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic are displayed on Sunday. Both the pound coins (L) and the 50 piaster coins (R) depict doctors and nurses with the words "Medical Teams of Egypt".
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image captionOn the same day in Tanzania, choir members belt out hymns at a church in Dar es Salaam. Masks and social distancing are not compulsory because the president says Tanzania is virus-free, yet this is disputed by many inside and outside the country.
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image captionOn Wednesday, security forces stage a mock fight during training in Libya's capital, Tripoli.
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image captionVisitors approach the Meroe Pyramids in northern Sudan on Friday.
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image captionOn Tuesday, a man rides his bike in Senegal's southern Casamance region.
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image captionOn the same day, a Senegalese soldier emerges from an underground bunker at a recently captured MFDC rebel base in the Blaze forest. Thousands of people have been killed since the conflict in Casamance broke out in 1982.
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image captionAnd on Friday, a sandstorm engulfs Algeria's coastal city of Oran in a cloud of orange.

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