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

Feb 9, 2024 - 11:44 Updated: Feb 9, 2024 - 11:47
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Models get their make-up done back stage before the start of the One Fashion Week aimed at combatting discrimination.ARLETTE BASHIZI/REUTERS
It's time for make-up backstage at One Fashion Week in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
Nigerian singer Ayra Starr arrives for the 66th annual Grammy Awards ceremony at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA
The next day in the US, Nigerian singer Ayra Starr arrives at the Grammy Awards...
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Nigerian singer Burna Boy performs on stage during Grammy Awards.VALERIE MACON/AFP
Later that evening, Burna Boy brings the house down with a performance that featured the singer Brandy and rapper 21 Savage among others...
Tyla accepts the AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY IMAGES
But the night belonged to South Africa's Tyla. "This is crazy! I never thought I'd say I won a Grammy at 22 years old!" she said as she collected the first African Music Performance Grammy award.
Danai Gurira's shows her hands to the camera.CHRIS DELMAS/AFP
Also in Los Angeles, Zimbabwean actress and producer Danai Gurira flashes her gold manicure on the red carpet for her TV series The Walking Dead, on Wednesday.
Caftans on display during the exhibition.JALAL MORCHIDI/EPA
Caftans are the latest special exhibition at Morocco's Jewellery Museum in Rabat on Thursday. Some are borrowed from the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh and the haute couture house of the designer Zahour Rais.
A woman with face paint watched DR Congo beat Guinea in the Africa Cup of Nations.SIA KAMBOU/AFP
Fans watch as DR Congo triumph over Guinea in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) quarter-final on Friday....
A fan with face paint pulls faces.SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS
Days later, Nigeria beat South Africa in the semi-finals...
South African football fans in Johannesburg fans watch their national team Bafana Bafana play Nigeria.KIM LUDBROOK/EPA
After winning a nail-biting penalty shoot-out.
An employee manually resets pins at the Guenet Bowling alley in Addis Ababa.MICHELE SPATARI/AFP
A man resets bowling pins by hand at this complex in Addis Ababa which dates back to 1955....
A couple play at the Guenet Bowling alley in Addis Ababa.MICHELE SPATARI/AFP
Guenet Bowling alley was opened by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie himself.
Activists protest outside the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists in Tunis. They are demanding that authorities intensify search operations for missing migrants and provide compensation.HASAN MRAD/GETTY IMAGES
Protesters wave this banner with the names of missing migrants at a rally in Tunisia's capital on Tuesday.
A man stands in the wreckage of a burnt house in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya.DANIEL IRUNGU/EPA
A man stands in the wreckage of a house that was destroyed by a fire in Kenya's capital city on Thursday, killing six people. Residents said the authorities had ignored their reports about a gas leak hours before.
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