A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:

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The Ipoa links most of the 65 deaths over four days of demonstrations to actions by the police.

They are expected to support initiatives to reconnect African descendants with their roots in the continent.

Following the gold-rush in Lomera, the village population has increased from 1,500 to 12,000 in less than a year.