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Africa's week in pictures: 2-8 April 2021

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

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image captionA young family stroll down the beach in Saly, Senegal, on Saturday.
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image captionOn Thursday, dancers take to their final rehearsal for the Ballet and Beyond series at South Africa's Joburg Theater.
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image captionAlso in South Africa, candles are lit during Good Friday prayers in the neighbourhood of Soweto.
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image captionTwo days later, worshippers pack out Easter Sunday mass at La Paroisse Saint Aloys d'Ijenda in Burundi.
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image captionOn the same day in Lagos, Nigeria, the congregation belts out hymns at the Celestial Church of Christ...
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image captionWhile in Senegal, Catholic devotees walk in procession past a watchful horse.
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image captionBelievers queue to take communion wafers at the Saint-Augustin church in La Goulette in Tunis, Tunisia.
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image captionLively celebrations rock DR Congo's International Kimbanguist Church, a Christian denomination founded 100 years ago, during its anniversary ceremony attended by President Félix Tshisekedi.
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image captionA man walks past a mural in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday.
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image captionOn Wednesday a farmer looks at her bales, as tobacco-selling season begins in Zimbabwe.
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image captionA performer dressed in ancient Egyptian costume takes a selfie as 22 royal mummies are moved from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation on Saturday.
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image captionAnd on Tuesday a detained teacher makes a victory sign for the camera at a protest demanding better pay and working conditions in Morocco's capital, Rabat.

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