A selection of photos from across Africa, and of Africans elsewhere, this week:
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A reveller smiles for the cameras at Uganda’s Royal Ascot Goat Race on Saturday. The annual event began in 1993 as a parody of the UK’s famous horse race.
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Also on Saturday, models for Mozambican designer Taússy Daniel strike poses on the catwalk at AFI Johannesburg Fashion Week…
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Another model has her hair and make-up tended to backstage…
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Also at the event were the Ndlovu Youth Choir, seen here performing for attendees…
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While frothy tulle designs by House Of Jahdara were among the pieces on display.
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Africa Dance by late Nigerian painter Ben Enwonwu is seen on Saturday at Sotheby’s auction house in London. Days later the artwork sold for £471,000 ($604,300) – more than twice its estimate.
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Identical twin sisters Kehinde Olofin (L) and Taye Olofin take part in the Igbo-Ora World Twins festival on Saturday…
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Alese Kehinde Akat (L) and Alese Taiwo also attend…
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The event is held in a part of south-western Nigeria reputed to have one of the highest incidences of multiple births in the world.
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At Nigeria’s football friendly against Brazil in Singapore on Sunday, a boy holds up a sign in Portuguese that reads “Neymar can I have your shirt, I’m your biggest fan”.
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The day before, Entle Maungwa of Botswana is seen competing in the karate kata category at the ANOC World Beach Games in Qatar.
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Nuba-style wrestlers fight in front of a packed-out crowd in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, on Friday.
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Rapt supporters near Eliud Kipchoge’s training camp in western Kenya watch live TV coverage on Saturday as the athlete attempts to become the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. Kipchoge succeeded – clocking a time of 1:59:40 in Austria.
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Ugandan activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, 22, is visibly moved at a summit in Denmark on Friday as she describes the effects of the global climate crisis on her community. “Dry spells left the stream dry and my parents had to sell off our land – when the money [finished] it was a question of survival or death,” she said.
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Tunisian military officers take a selfie while escorting sealed voting materials to a polling station in the capital on Saturday, ahead of a presidential vote-off later won by retired law professor Kais Saied.
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And on Sunday in Botswana, supporters join a rally for Tshekedi Khama – the brother of former President Ian Khama – who is standing as a parliamentary candidate in next week’s elections.
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