Africa in pictures: 19-25 February 2016
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A selection of photos from around the African continent this week.
On Sunday, a man in Niger's capital, Niamey, fixes a muzzle to his camel to keep it from biting.
The next day, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe blows out candles on his cake at an event to mark his 92nd birthday at state house in the capital, Harare.
Also on Monday, Burundian drummers welcome UN chief Ban Ki-Moon (L) to Bujumbura airport. He visited to renew efforts to resolve Burundi's recent political crisis...
The next day, Mr Ban flies to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, where met children living at a camp in the volatile eastern city of Goma for those who have fled their homes.
Men play a board game in Uganda's capital, Kampala, on Saturday - the day the electoral commission confirmed President Yoweri Museveni had won elections...
It will be Mr Museveni's fifth term, extending his 30 years in office. Here a boy with a toy gun studies one of the soldiers patrolling Kampala on Saturday...
On the same day, a supporter of Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who says the results were a "sham", prays on a Kampala street.
South African rangers try to bring down a tranquillised rhino on Wednesday before dehorning it in an effort to discourage poachers who kill the animals for their horns.
Ivory Coast's Eric Bertrand Bailly shows amazing stamina to control a ball during a Spanish league match between his team Villarreal and Atletico Madrid on Sunday.
Soldiers take part in a counter-terrorism exercise in the Senegalese city of Thies on Wednesday. The annual Flintlock exercise involves African, European and US forces.
The day before, a man celebrates in the streets of Benghazi after Islamist militias lost territory, including the port and a hospital, in the eastern Libyan city...
The fighting in Benghazi, which has been going on for more than a year, does not stop this man from practising kite boarding on Sunday.