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Africa's week in pictures: 6 – 12 November 2020

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

A man wheels his bike among the fallen petals of jacaranda trees.
A man wheels his bike among the fallen petals of jacaranda trees in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday.
A man carries a bench outside a school, which has a mural painted on a wall.
The next day in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, people rearrange furniture as a school is converted into a polling station for parliamentary elections.
A professional skydiver carries a tourist as they fly over pyramid Khufu or "Cheops".
On Sunday skydivers sail over the peaks of the pyramids in Giza, Egypt.
An artist stands on a step-ladder as he paints a pair of cupped hands reaching out to white doves.
Artists paint “peace murals” in Bingerville, Ivory Coast, on Saturday following an election, boycotted by the opposition, in which the president won a controversial third term.
A man walks at a rally with the words "un coup KO", meaning "a knockout blow", painted on his torso.
Election campaign season is under way in Burkina Faso, where this supporter of the president wishes him “a knockout blow” with those words painted on his chest in French.
A smiling woman sits in a tree bough holding a placard that reads "Trees have life - we need them to survive".
On Wednesday, Phyllis Wamaitha sits in the century-old fig tree she and other Kenyan environmentalists saved from being cut down to make way for a major new road.
A child jumps through floodwaters near houses.
Also in Kenya, a girl jumps through floodwater on Sunday after Lake Naivasha burst its banks and forced hundreds of people from their homes…
Barren trees stand waterlogged in a flooded plain.
Local officials say it is the result of climate change.

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source: yahoo.com