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

The prime minister warns that El Niño-triggered heavy rains are likely to continue into May.

A Moroccan club is awarded the win after their kit was confiscated by Algerian customs officials.

East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.

A manhunt is launched after more than 100 inmates escape the colonial-era facility near Abuja.

Photos of the three naked tourists have gone viral in Namibia, angering the authorities.

Soldiers accused residents of aiding Islamist fighters before shooting at them, an investigation shows.

How the country's former president is thwarting attempts to bar him from contesting the polls.

Rwanda is gearing up to welcome deported asylum seekers now the landmark UK bill has passed.

The two staff were arrested last Friday by the DR Congo army over alleged missing custom documentation on "valuable" cargo, KQ says - and more stories

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gives a well-loved London landmark a bold pink makeover.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is targeting the new malaria vaccines as African countries start their rollout.

Patients have been left without access to crucial services at state hospitals for a month.

Slam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.

The bus was travelling to Nairobi when it was swept off the road.

Russ Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", has finished his challenge of running the length of Africa.

The BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to survivors of the Rwanda genocide violence 30 years after she fled.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal's fifth president, has been sworn into office at a ceremony in the capital, Dakar.

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

The ICJ could order Israel to stop military action, in a high-profile case brought by South Africa.