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A selection of the best photos from across and about Africa this week.

A photographer and an artist have made an anthology dedicated to female photographers of African descent.

A lawyer filed a complaint against Laila Amer, saying her music video was a "great risk" to Egypt.

BBC Sport looks at the five candidates vying to be the next president of the Ethiopia Football Federation, one of the founding members of Confederation of African Football.

The one thing all Zimbabweans yearn for this year is an economic revival.

Trends include delivery drones, pay-as-you-go off-grid power, and using blockchain to prevent land disputes.

Is Liberia's controversial school experiment raising standards?

Nigerians who have returned from Libya share their experiences of being forced to work as slaves.

Security forces have killed at least seven people, UN peacekeepers say.

Egyptian club Al Ismaily appoint former coach Aboutaleb El Essawi as a replacement for Sébastien Desabre who left to become Uganda's national team coach.

Swansea's Ghanaian forward Jordan Ayew says the club's new manager Carlos Carvalhal has asked him to be 'a leader' as they fight to stay in the Premier League.

The collision with a lorry took place on a notoriously dangerous stretch of highway near Migaa.

Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from.

Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene looks back at the African leaders who lost power in 2017.

Ina Makosi takes pictures of models in places covered in litter around Dakar to encourage local communities to pick up their trash.

A gunman launched a double attack on a Coptic area, killing nine, says Egyptian interior ministry.

The move comes after a religious leader criticised the government during a Christmas sermon.

The ex-footballer George Weah has been voted in as the president of Liberia. But will he be equal to the country's many challenges, asks Umaru Fofana.

African cities are getting "smart" by embracing technology and improving efficiency.

The former footballer will assume power in Liberia's first democratic handover in decades.