Africa's week in pictures: 9-15 June 2017
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
On Sunday Kenyans ran in the country's first ever "colour run" - a global phenomenon borrowed from the Hindu Holi festival.
Runners are hit with a different colour paint after every kilometre of the run.
On the same day across the continent in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast a hat seller gets to business.
On Wednesday, France's President Emmanuel Macron joins Morocco's King Mohammed VI to break the daily Ramadan fast at his palace in Rabat.
Also at the end of the day on Wednesday, Libyans fished off the coast of Benghazi.
On Saturday, players in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between Guinea and Ivory Coast pay tribute to footballer Cheick Tiote, who died while training in China...
On Monday, his team mates in Beijing Enterprises attended his memorial service...
And on Thursday, hundreds of well-wishers, including this one, go to the airport in Abidjan to welcome his body.
A member of a local militia in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, poses for the camera on Friday.
On Thursday, taxi drivers block the highways in South Africa's Gauteng province in an effort to bring down the cost of buying Toyota Quantum taxis.
On the same day, a different form of transport entirely pulls in to a petrol station in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Images courtesy of AFP, EPA, Getty Images and Reuters