A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:
RODGER BOSCH / AFPHoping to win hearts and minds with humour, Extinction Rebellion protesters pose as "fossil fuel vampires" preying on Mother Earth outside an oil producers' conference on Tuesday, in the South African city of Cape Town. The campaigners say time is running out to fix the global climate crisis.
Khaled DESOUKI / AFPTime is also on the mind of this market vendor in Cairo, Egypt, offering masses of watches for sale.
FETHI BELAID / AFPA voter in Tunisia dips their finger in ink to show they have already cast their ballot in Sunday's presidential election.
TIKSA NEGERI / REUTERSOn Sunday, people in the central Ethiopian town of Bishoftu mark Irreecha… 
TIKSA NEGERI / REUTERSIt is a thanksgiving festival observed by the Oromo people…
Michele Spatari / AFPThese men join celebrations held in the capital city, Addis Ababa…
Michele Spatari / AFPOne tradition involves dunking freshly cut grass and flowers in water to thank Waaqa – meaning God – for the rainy season, which comes to an end at this time of year. 
FRANCIS KOKOROKO / REUTERSA man cleans impurities off a gold bar during the smelting process at a refinery in Ghana on Monday.
JORIS BOLOMEY / AFPOn the same day, this man in Chad's capital city of N'Djamena has little choice but to get around by canoe. The Logone river has flooded this south-eastern district called Tougoude.
ADRIAN DENNIS / AFPOn Monday, Chagos Islanders living in the UK denounce the British government's decision to cede control of their homeland to Mauritius – saying they were not consulted and their sovereignty has once again been violated.
ZO ANDRIANJAFY / REUTERSIn Madagascar's capital Antananarivo on Monday, this miniature replica of the Eiffel Tower is seen from below. The 12-metre-high model is the work of Ruffin Rakotomalala.
FILIP SINGER / EPAAnd finally, as Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is received at Germany's Bellevue Palace on Tuesday, a wild fox darts past the guardsmen and women.From the BBC in Africa this week:The 91-year-old president who keeps defying death rumoursHow friends became foes in Africa's diamond state‘I found out I had cervical cancer while I was pregnant’Seeing double! The twins who idolised Man Utd stars
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