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Africa’s top shots: 13-19 September 2019

By Terry Paul2 min read
Updated September 22, 2019 4:21 pm
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A selection of photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week:

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Image caption On Sunday a voter shows off her inky finger, a security measure used to make sure people don’t vote twice. She had just voted in Tunisia’s presidential election…
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Image caption … While a soldier stands guard at a polling station in Sousse, south of Tunisia’s capital.
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Image caption Meanwhile, on Saturday, South Sudanese model Adut Akech gets a warm embrace from modelling royalty Naomi Campbell in London, UK.
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Image caption On Wednesday a market trader sells some freshly caught fish in a fishmongers in Kenya’s capital Nairobi
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Image caption Also on Wednesday a doctor talks with police in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. The doctors have been striking after their union leader went missing, feared to have been abducted.
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Image caption Earlier in the week, on Monday, police were also out patrolling a protest asking for more to be done about terrorism in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou.
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Image caption On Wednesday men waited in Liberia’s capital Monrovia for President George Weah to arrive at a burial after a deadly fire the night before. Some 27 people, mainly children, died in a koranic school’s boarding house.
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Image caption On Monday Zimbabweans queued to see the body of their former president Robert Mugabe who died on 6 September, aged 95…
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Image caption … his body has been taken to lie in state at Murombedzi Growth Point, about 107 km north-west of Harare…
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Image caption … two days earlier, his wife, Grace, also said goodbye at the state funeral held at the national sports stadium.

Pictures from AFP, Getty Images, Nur Photo and Anadolu Agency

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