A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent:
Image copyrightReutersImage captionFightfighters in Nigeria work to extinguish a blaze at Balogun market in the city of Lagos on Wednesday…Image copyrightAFPImage captionThe sprawling market area is known for its fabric and clothing stalls.Image copyrightReutersImage captionOn Saturday, a food vendor, known in Nigeria as a "Mama Put", sits by a stall in the capital, Abuja. Mama Put is one of 29 Nigerian-English words added to the Oxford English Dictionary this month...Image copyrightReutersImage captionOn the same day, words used in Nigeria that were already in the dictionary are seen on a Scrabble board in Abuja...Image copyrightReutersImage captionThe word game is popular in Nigeria and here players in the capital face each other at a Scrabble event.Image copyrightEPAImage captionOn Wednesday, a health worker screens passengers after their arrival at the international airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.Image copyrightEPAImage captionA Kenyan farmer on Friday holds up a desert locust, which has turned yellow - meaning it has reached sexual maturity. Locust swarms are sweeping across the region, leaving devastation in their wake.Image copyrightReutersImage captionHymns are sung at a special service on Sunday at St Stephen's Anglican church in Nairobi, attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a visit to the country.Image copyrightAFPImage captionOn Tuesday, friends of prominent Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni carry the 36-year-old's coffin - honouring her fight for gender equality in the Muslim country where women often do not take part in funerals.Image copyrightEPAImage captionReplica statues of pharaonic Queen Nefertiti are seen at the workshop in Egypt's capital, Cairo, on Monday.Image copyrightAFPImage captionChildren enjoy a ride at an amusement park in the Libyan town of Tajura, near the capital, Tripoli, on Friday…Image copyrightAFPImage captionFour days a later, a Libyan breeder of Arabian horses trains a steed at his farm in the eastern city of Benghazi.Image copyrightAFPImage captionVillagers flee spiralling violence in northern Burkina Faso on Monday. Aid agencies say the number of people displaced there increased tenfold last year - to more than 500,000 people.Image copyrightEPAImage captionThe next day, motorcyclists protest about acute petrol shortages in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, as they queue at a garage.Image copyrightEPAImage captionA farm worker in a tobacco field in Zimbabwe carries freshly harvested leaves on Wednesday.Image copyrightReutersImage captionThe next day, a man uses his mobile phone at the launch of an MTN mobile money service in South Africa's city of Johannesburg…Image copyrightEPAImage captionAnd also on Thursday, Johannesburg resident and mountain climber Saray Khumalo, the first black woman to climb Everest, is pictured overlooking the city.
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