Africa's week in pictures: 7-13 April 2023

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:

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More than 800 couples flock to a Pentecostal church in Kgabalatsane, South Africa, for a mass wedding ceremony on Easter Sunday
AFP
On the same day, this bride dances as she arrives for a mass wedding at a Pentecostal church south of Johannesburg
AFP
The day before, these men dig into an Iftar feast in Sudan's capital Khartoum during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
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Meanwhile a grander gathering in Egypt's capital Cairo sees hundreds break their fast at communal tables
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A nutritious Ethiopian enset tree, also known as the false banana, flowers for the first time at Kew Gardens in the the UK's capital city of London
Reuters
On Sunday, Coptic Christians adorn themselves with white robes and palm crosses at mass in Egypt's Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery
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Days earlier on Good Friday, this resident of Nairobi takes in the scene
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Fourteen-year-old Joseph Browlins is among a group of Catholic's in the Kenyan capital re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
AFP
It is a similar scene in Nigeria where this worshipper acts the part of Jesus, wig and all, during festivities in the city of Lagos
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Also on Good Friday, hundreds of children queue for hot cross buns and Easter eggs in Cape Town, South Africa
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On Wednesday, dancers perform the Tanoura in Cairo's al-Ghouri Palace
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On Sunday in Lagos, dancers and musicians perform on stage with Made Kuti - grandson of Nigerian music icon Fela Kuti
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And on Friday, tourists spot a rainbow over Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe

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