Africa's week in pictures: 6-12 July 2018
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
An albino model takes part in a show on Friday at South Africa's famous Durban July - a racing event where fashionistas take centre stage.
Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II, flanked by head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis, releases a dove the next day after meeting clerics in Italy.
Horsemen ride in a choreographed cavalry charge during the opening ceremony of a Berber festival in Morocco on Sunday…
The annual event in the western desert town of Tan-Tan celebrates local traditions...
And it brings together nomadic groups from across northern Africa.
A Ugandan rugby player fends off a Kenyan rival during a World Cup qualifier in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Saturday…
The Kenyans went on to win the match 38-22 - much to the delight of these fans.
Schoolgirls are pictured queuing for lunch on Wednesday in Kajiado in southern Kenya.
A historic hug on Monday between Ethiopia's prime minister (L) and his Eritrean counterpart (R) ended a 20-year state of war between their nations.
It is all smiles on Wednesday when South Africa's leader Cyril Ramaphosa (L) greets Muhammadu Buhari at the Nigerian leader's residence in Abuja.
Power lines are seen on Tuesday in South Africa's Khayelitsha township, where many people hook up illegal extensions to the grid.
Nigeria's national amputee football team meets to pray before the start of a training session in the city of Lagos on Friday.
Opposition supporters in Zimbabwe's capital show their red cards on Wednesday in a protest calling for electoral reforms ahead of polls on 30 July.
A Ugandan journalist films riot police as they fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the capital, Kampala, on Wednesday…
The protest was against taxes that have been imposed on those using social media, which the government has now promised to review.
And children in northern Mozambique watch cartoons during a break in the broadcast of the World Cup Brazil v Belgium quarter-final on Friday.
Images from AFP, EPA and Reuters.