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Africa's week in pictures: 4-10 September 2020

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

Getty Images Members of the Tigray Circus rehearse in the city of Mekele, Ethiopia, on September 8, 2020.Getty Images
On Tuesday members of the Tigray circus rehearse in the Ethiopian city of Mekeele...
Getty Images Members of the Tigray Circus rehearse in the city of Mekele, Ethiopia, on September 8, 2020.Getty Images
... the circus provides training for disadvantaged young people.
Getty Images A former wrestler and a journalist at the Congolese National Radio Television, Maitre Satonge, pays tribute to his former colleague and friend, Democratic Republic of Congo's wrestling champion Alphonse Mwimba Makiese, during a memorial service for Alphonse Mwimba Makiese, at the Mwimba residence, in Kinshasa on September 4, 2020.Getty Images
On Friday former Congolese wrestler Maitre Satonge pays tribute to his former colleague and friend, Alphonse Mwimba Makiease, a champion of albino rights, who died after a year-long illness.
Getty Images Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters chant during a picket outside a Clicks Store, at the Mall of the North in Polokwane, on September 7, 2020.Getty Images
Activists from the South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters protest outside the shop Clicks in Polokwane on Monday over a shampoo advert which described black hair as dull and white hair as normal.
Getty Images An armed member of the community security stands in front of a school where a polling station is located during Tigrays regional elections, in the town of Tikul, 15 kms east from Mekele, Ethiopia, on September 9, 2020.Getty Images
On Wednesday a school acts as a polling station for the Tigray regional parliamentary election in northern Ethiopia...
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... Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government postponed all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic and has deemed this election illegal...
Getty Images Electoral officials open a ballot box at a polling station on the day of Tigray's regional elections, on September 9, 2020 in Mekele.Getty Images
... the election represents the latest challege to Mr Abiy's authority.
Getty Images Flood-affected Sudanese people face challenging circumstances in Al Lamab of Khartoum, Sudan on September 8, 2020.Getty Images
On Tuesday people in Sudan's capital Khartoum continue to struggle with floods...
Getty Images A Sudanese man wades through the floodwaters with his dog at Umm Dawm district in Khartoum, Sudan on September 8, 2020.Getty Images
... countrywide, floods have killed nearly 100 people and made thousands homeless.
Getty Images A man carries a mattress on his head while walking in flood water in the Keurs Massar area in Dakar on September 7, 2020 after heavy rains in Senegal.Getty Images
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, floods also hit Senegal's capital Dakar.
Getty Images A woman is seen carrying her water Jerrycans past the corridors in Kibera Slums.Getty Images
On Monday this scene is captured in the alleyways of the Kibera neighbourhood of Kenya's capital Nairobi.
Getty Images Extinction Rebellion's Black Brigade join a protest outside corporate offices of oil company Shell demanding an end to extraction of fossil fuels and reparations for the communities affected by environmental pollution caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta, on 08 September, 2020 in London, England.Getty Images
On Tuesday protesters in London demand reparations for those affected by oil spills in the Niger Delta in Nigeria.

Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, EPA and Reuters.