Africa's top shots: 18-24 November 2016

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

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Athletes in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, await starter's orders for the Great Ethiopian Run on Sunday...
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More than 30,000 people take part in the annual 10km (six mile) event, which welcomes elite athletes as well as amateur enthusiasts.
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The same day, children cool off in the shade of a vintage biplane at Khartoum airport in the Sudanese capital. The fleet of aircraft, made before 1949, is taking part in a five-week rally across the continent.
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Also on Sunday, a group of young Liberian boys work on their taekwondo moves at a martial arts club in the capital, Monrovia...
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The Eagle Taekwondo Club has been going for 20 years, with several former students going on to represent the West African country at Olympic level.
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Meanwhile in neighbouring Ivory Coast,, a man flies a kite on a beach resort of Grand Bassam.
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Earlier in the week in the same town on Sunday, a participant in the annual traditional feast of the Nzima people waits for her king...
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He arrives after a short while and is carried through the crowd on a litter...
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The queen also gets the royal treatment at the ceremony which is about conveying messages of peace.
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The royal theme continues on Monday outside the High Court in London, as a Nigerian monarch attends a hearing to establish whether thousands of members of his community can seek compensation in the UK from Royal Dutch Shell in the over oil spills in the Niger Delta.
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On Wednesday, Senegalese men chat after being rescued when their boat got into trouble off the coast of Libya...
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As the rescue boat makes its way to Italy, many of those on board take shelter under gold survival blankets, while others wear rain ponchos to keep dry.
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And in the Egyptian capital Cairo, a group practises a novel form of meditation in a salt cave, in pictures published by Reuters on Thursday...
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The businessman behind the venture swears by the healing qualities of salt.
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A tourist and vendor haggle over a curio of a rhino in Hout Bay harbour near the South African city of Cape Town on Thursday.
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Men push a motorist stranded on a flooded street in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam on Wednesday.
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And a man arranges vinyl records on Thursday at his stall where he sells second-hand vinyl records and restores vintage players Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

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