Water fights and nimble rams: Africa's top shots

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

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters A teenager in a pink T-shirt and navy trousers with bare feet throws a bucket of water at a girl in a short skirt who has her back to the camera. Another boy pours a bottle of water over her outside a gate in Protea North, Johannesburg in South Africa - Monday 1 September 2025 Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Children in Johannesburg take no prisoners on Monday - 1 September - the day South Africans welcome the official start of spring by engaging in water fights.

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It is not going to plan for this participant at a classic car show on Sunday near South Africa's city of Sasolburg in Free State province.

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Monday heralds the start of a new academic year for these junior school pupils in Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has been under the rule of Rwandan-back M23 rebels since January.

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Animals are taken to a watering trough on Friday in the remote Kenyan town of Bisil in Kajiado county, where the community is struggling to cope with a drought.

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On the same day, beekeepers use smoke to calm bees as they inspect hives on the slopes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains...

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Nearby in the area of Aït Attou Moussa on Saturday, a shepherd herds his flock up a rocky mountainside.

Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters An orchestra from Burkina Faso - its members dressed in green, red and yellow with yellow hats -march and perform in Moscow's Red Square. They are playing a mixture of wind, woodwind and percussion instruments. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

On Sunday, the Presidential Orchestra of Burkina Faso performs at the closing ceremony of Russia's international military music festival in Moscow's Red Square.

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In Guinea's capital, Conakry, a man goes for a run on Saturday along a beach where loads of washed up rubbish can be seen...

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The next day, a Catholic altar boy in the mainly Muslim country wields an incense burner as he leads a procession into Sunday Mass in Conakry.

Feisal Omar/Reuters A young camel herder stands against a blue sky wearing an orange turban and orange necklace over a khaki jacket surrounded by camels - Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday 2 September 2025. Feisal Omar/Reuters

On Tuesday, a herder stands with his camels in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where - in observance of a Muslim tradition - 1,200 of the animals were reportedly due to be slaughtered to mark the Prophet Muhammad's birthday this week.

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In a Johannesburg court in South Africa on Monday, the mother of a six-year-old girl who was kidnapped, raped and murdered last year breaks down as the killer is sentenced to two life terms...

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And at a funeral on Saturday, children wear shirts with photos of Esmine Francke, a 12-year-old girl killed in the crossfire of a gang fight on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa.

KB Mpofu/Reuters Several models walk up a catwalk mainly dress in black clothes with white face paint designs at the I Wear My Culture fashion show in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Saturday 30 August 2025. KB Mpofu/Reuters

On the same day in neighbouring Zimbabwe, the city of Bulawayo hosts the I Wear My Culture fashion show - in which 16 young designers show off their creations. These models wear outfits from the collection for Zimbabwe's Ndebele people...

KB Mpofu/Reuters A model in a long pink dress with a strip big collar on the catwalk being photographed by members of the audience at the I Wear My Culture fashion show in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Saturday 30 August 2025. KB Mpofu/Reuters

This dress is from a collection representing the Venda people, who are from South Africa's Limpopo province that borders Zimbabwe.

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And two female content creators are seen at work on Sunday at a stadium in Lagos on the second weekend of this season's Nigeria Premier Football League.