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Africa's top shots: 7-13 May 2021

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

Reuters Children balance boards on their heads as they walk to the shore's edge.Reuters
Children in Morocco's southern town of Tarfaya take free surfing lessons on Tuesday.
AFP Muslim worshippers are seen through triangle-shaped recess windows.AFP
In Senegal on Friday, worshippers pray at the the Mosque of the Divinity in the capital city Dakar.
EPA A girl holds prayer beads in her hands as she prays...EPA
On Wednesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, this girl is among Muslims marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Reuters A woman is seen kneeling upright whole others around her are bend forward in prayer.Reuters
The next day in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, congregants also mark Eid al-Fitr...
Reuters Muslim women apply henna to each others' hands after prayers.Reuters
The morning's prayers are followed by henna designs...
Reuters A young boy prays.Reuters
Days earlier in Cairo in Egypt, this boy is seen in a moment of contemplation during evening prayers in Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque.
EPA A man hands out dates to worshippers.EPA
And the traditional iftar snack of dates is shared between members of Tafara Jamat Masjid in Zimbabwe's capital on Thursday.
AFP A Muslim volunteer walks past long rows of plastic bottles.AFP
A volunteer walks pasts rows of bottled water in Meskel square in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, before of thousands of Muslims gathered for iftar - the evening meal ending each day's fast during Ramadan.
Reuters A man carries a moulded block.Reuters
On Monday in Nigeria's capital Abuja a man carries a brick of cement at a manufacturing site.
Reuters A boxer lifts his fist in jubilation as his opponent scrunches his face up in dismay.Reuters
The day before, Senegal-born Souleymane Cissokho celebrates his win over Kieron Conway at a super-welterweight title fight in Texas, the US.
EPA The ancient Persephone statue is pictured at the Libyan embassy in London, UK.EPA
On the same day, a 2nd Century Persephone statue is handed over to the Libyan embassy in the British capital London. The artefact had been seized from a Unesco-protected site in Libya and later smuggled into the UK where it was intercepted by border police.
EPA Children jump into the water of the Nile.EPA
On Saturday, children cool off in the outskirts of Cairo...
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EPA Children swim in the water of the Nile.EPA
Many took to the cool waters of the River Nile on a hot day.

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