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Africa's week in pictures: 18-24 November 2022

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

News imageReuters FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group G - Switzerland v Cameroon - Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah, Qatar - November 24, 2022Reuters
Cameroonian football fans dress up in their finest as the Indomitable Lions take on Switzerland on Thursday at the World Cup in Qatar, their team though go on to lose 1-0...
News imageReuters Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group D - Denmark v Tunisia - Education City Stadium, Al Rayyan, Qatar - November 22, 2022Reuters
Tunisia hold off Denmark and secure a 0-0 draw as this family of fans take in the action on Tuesday...
News imageReuters FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Arrival - Ghana team arrives in Doha - Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar - November 18, 2022Reuters
Ghana's Black Stars arrive in the Qatari capital, Doha, in style on Friday...
News imageAFP Kenyan children watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group A football match between Qatar and Ecuador at a public screening at Camp Toyoyo Ground in Nairobi, on November 20, 2022AFP
The competition kicks off on Sunday and these children in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, enjoy the action at a public screening.
News imageEPA A resident throws water from a bucket as a fire rages through shacks in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa, 21 November 2022EPA
On Monday, a desperate resident of a township in the South African city of Cape Town tries to douse the flames that are damaging his home.
News imageEPA A little girl waves flags of Vietnam and Uganda during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, 24 November 2022EPA
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is welcomed in Vietnam as he flies into Hanoi on Thursday on a trip to improve ties with the country.
News imageAFP New members of South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) of the Unified Forces attend the graduation ceremony in Malakal on November 21, 2022AFP
A photographer snaps a new graduate who became a member of South Sudan's army at a ceremony in Malakal on Monday...
News imageAFP New members of South Sudan Police Service (SSPS) of the Unified Forces attend with handmade wooden rifles or sticks the graduation ceremony in Malakal on November 21, 2022AFP
New recruits are welcomed into the police force at the same time.
News imageReuters President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, laughs as King Charles III speaks during the State Banquet held at Buckingham Palace, London, during the State Visit to the UK by the South African presidentReuters
King Charles III makes South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa laugh on Tuesday as he hosts a state banquet in his honour - the first of his reign.
News imageEPA People attend the procession in tribute to kuduro musician known as 'Nagrelha' in the surroundings of the city's Santa Ana cemetery, near Luanda, Angola, 22 November 2022EPA
On the same day in Angola's capital, Luanda, fans of kuduro musician Nagrelha hold a procession in his honour following his untimely death from lung cancer.
News imageAFP A group of people participate in sports exercises while others look on at a public square in Goma on November 20, 2022AFP
People in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo practice group yoga stretches in a square on Sunday.
News imageEPA A member of the Presidential Guard adjusts the uniform of his colleague before the Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived to deliver the State of The Nation Address and officially open the fifth session of the Ninth Parliament in the newly built Parliament building in Mount Hampden, Zimbabwe, 23 November 2022EPA
Shortly before Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives at the country's new parliament on Wednesday a soldier adjusts a comrade's uniform to make sure everything is perfect.
News imageReuters A woman rides a bike via "Cairo Bike", a project about using bikes around the capital to encourage the preservation of the environment, in Egypt November 18, 2022Reuters
On Friday, a woman in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, rides a bicycle that is being loaned out as part of a project to encourage a cleaner environment.
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