Africa's week in pictures: 13-19 August 2021

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A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

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A band parades to celebrate the 61st independence anniversary of the Central African Republic at Camp Kasai in Bangui on Friday.
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A different type of drumming on Tuesday as the Rastafari Society of Kenya plants tree seedlings to commemorate the birthday of Jamaican black empowerment activist, Marcus Garvey
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And it's a war dance in Addis Ababa as artists perform on Friday during a farewell ceremony for Ethiopian military forces leaving to fight in Tigray
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In Zambia, supporters of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) dance to victory tunes after Hakainde Hichilema was declared winner of the presidential election on Monday
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Ghanaian boxer Samuel Takyi is "blinded by victory" as powder is sprinkled over him by his supporters on his return home from the Tokyo Olympics, where he won a bronze medal
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Two days later, survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, 107-year-old Viola Ford Fetcher, holds a bouquet during a church service in Accra where she is visiting with her brother...
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... 100 year-old Hughes Van Ellis, who also survived the massacre. Between May-June 1921, more than 300 black residents were murdered and hundreds of black-owned businesses were destroyed by a white mob that descended on Greenwood, in the US city of Tulsa.
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On Wednesday, the official mascot of the Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup Russia 2021, a firebird named Zharishka, welcomes the Senegalese team during a training session
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On Tuesday in Cameroon, artist Salatiel performs during a colourful opening ceremony at the draw for the 2022 African Cup of Nations (CAN) which will be hosted by the country
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A man tries to help put out wildfires in Morocco that have destroyed some 200 hectares (500 acres) of forest in the region of Chefchaouen in the north of the country
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On Tuesday help arrives from above as a Royal Moroccan Air Force plane douses the wildfire
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On the same day in Kenya residents help put out a fire that burnt 12 homes in Bombolulu, Kibera, leaving residents stranded. The fire started from tangled electric wires supplying power to different homes
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On Monday, Senegal's plastic man Modou Fall, wearing an outfit made of plastic bags, walks around the city to raise awareness about plastic waste in Dakar
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Egyptian self-taught ninja, Abdel Qader Ahmed, known as Abouda Ninja, holds a sword he made himself, at a field in northern Cairo, on Friday

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