Africa in pictures: 7-13 June 2013
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A Togolese football fan cheers on the Sparrow Hawks during a World Cup qualifying match against Cameroon in Lome on Sunday. The team went on to beat the Indomitable Lions 2-0....
... The day before, football fans at the stadium in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, see the Leone Stars draw 2-2 in their qualifying match against Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles.
On Tuesday, vigilantes pose in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which has been the base of the Islamist group Boko Haram. According to the Associated Press, members of the Civilian JTF, armed with machetes and sticks, point out suspects to the security forces as they implement a state of emergency in the region in an effort to crack down on an Islamist insurgency.
A Libyan protester holds a gun during clashes between demonstrators and a militia in the city of Benghazi on Saturday. Thirty people died in the violence which erupted when protesters gathered outside the Libya Shield Brigade premises, demanding it disband.
The next day, in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as summer temperatures soar, boys cool off at the seaside.
Zimbabwean police officers take part in a passing-out parade on Thursday, which was attended by President Robert Mugabe, who has set 31 July as the election day using a presidential decree to bypass parliament – angering his coalition partner and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who wants a later poll date.
On the same day, a portrait of South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela, who is in hospital for a recurrent lung infection, is installed on the windows of a building in the coastal city of Cape Town...
… While in Qunu, Mr Mandela's ancestral home in the Eastern Cape, a man gets an early morning haircut on Thursday. On the same day, women are pictured by their home in the hills of nearby Mvezo, the village where Mr Mandela was born.
On Tuesday, Tunisian soldiers patrol in the Mount Chaambi region where the army has been tracking al-Qaeda-linked militants the government says were ousted from northern Mali.
Malian Tuareg leaders attend a meeting on the crisis that has affected northern Mali, in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, on Friday. Negotiators want to ensure that national elections can held on 28 July. At the moment the mainly Tuareg secessionist MNLA group controls Kidal and does not want to allow the Malian authorities into the key northern town ahead of the poll.
A bookseller reads a copy of an Ethiopian psalter, a 500-year-old book written in the ancient Semitic language of Geez, the antecedent to modern-day Amharic, at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair on Thursday. This Book of Psalms is one of 24 remaining copies in the world.
In the US city of Boston on Saturday, an asylum seeker from Uganda marches with the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Asylum Support Task Force during the gay pride parade. Homosexual acts are illegal in socially conservative Uganda.
On Tuesday, Kenyan police outside parliament attempt to intercept protesters who denounced MPs as "MPigs" for voting themselves a hefty salary increase. The next day the Salaries and Remuneration Commission said the politicians had agreed to drop their annual salary to $75,000 and would receive a one-off car allowance of around $58,000 for agreeing to a $45,000 cut.