Africa's week in pictures: 23-29 November 2018
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
A street vendor sits by her stall in Ghana's capital, Accra, on Wednesday overlooked by a mural featuring historical figures including the nation's first leader Kwame Nkrumah.
Ghana and Mexico clash at the Fifa Under-17 Women's World Cup quarter-final in Uruguay on Sunday. The Black Stars lost on penalties, 2-4.
On Thursday, US TV star Oprah Winfrey delivers a speech in Johannesburg to mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president.
A golfer tees off the same day in Mauritius, during the first round of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.
Chad's President Idriss Déby visits Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Monday, as his country renews ties with Israel after more than 40 years.
Pilgrims from Ethiopia take a dip in the Qasr al-Yahud baptism site in the Jordan River, on the West Bank near Jericho on Wednesday.
Two curious children peep through a window with toy binoculars in western Ghana on Saturday.
The next day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, these girls join other Catholic faithful for the inauguration of the new archbishop of Kinshasa.
The intricately carved wooden doors to Benin's Senou Adande Ethnographic Museum are pictured on Monday. African artefacts are in the spotlight after France pledged to return items looted during colonial times.
Sudanese guards give a ceremonial welcome to Egypt's defence minister on Sunday. The country lifted a ban on agricultural imports from Egypt in October.
Chadian musician Afrotronix turns heads in unusual headgear at the All Africa Music Awards (Afrima) in Ghana on Saturday, where he won the award for Best African DJ.
On the same day, South African actress Candice Modiselle walks the red carpet at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
On Tuesday, Egypt's antiquities ministry announces that eight pharaonic-era mummies, like the one pictured, have been unearthed near the Great Pyramids of Giza.
A mourner in Uganda cries on Monday close to where a cruise boat sank in Lake Victoria on Saturday evening, killing at least 30 people...
Survivor Alex Niyonzima tells mourners at a funeral on Monday that he swam 200m to shore, adding, "When I felt the sand below my feet I realised that I had saved my life".
Members of Mauritania's national guard wield guns on Friday in the country's south-eastern town of Néma ahead of independence day celebrations.
On Wednesday, Egyptian actress Sarrah Abdelrahman poses for a close-up at the Cairo International Film Festival.
And on the same day, the BBC’s Girmay Gebru came across these teenagers in Ethiopia’s northern highlands as they attend an after-school performing arts club focusing on traditional music and drama.
Pictures from AFP, EPA, Reuters, Getty Images and Anadolu Agency