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Water fights and cobra no jogo do bichonimble rams: Africa's top shots6 days agoShareSaveLucy FlemingBBC NewsShareSaveA selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:Siphiwe Sibeko/ReutersChildren in Johannesburg take no prisoners on Monday - 1 September - the day South Africans welcome the official start of spring by engaging in water fights.Kim Ludbrook/EPA/ShutterstockIt 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.Marie Jeanne Munyerenkana/EPA/ShutterstockMonday 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.Gerald Anderson/Anadolu/Getty ImagesAnimals 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.Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty ImagesOn the same day, beekeepers use smoke to calm bees as they inspect hives on the slopes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains...Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty ImagesNearby in the area of A?t Attou Moussa on Saturday, a shepherd herds his flock up a rocky mountainside.Evgenia Novozhenina/ReutersOn Sunday, the Presidential Orchestra of Burkina Faso performs at the closing ceremony of Russia's international military music festival in Moscow's Red Square.Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Guinea's capital, Conakry, a man goes for a run on Saturday along a beach where loads of washed up rubbish can be seen...Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty ImagesThe 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/ReutersOn 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.Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesIn 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...Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty ImagesAnd 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/ReutersOn 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/ReutersThis dress is from a collection representing the Venda people, who are from South Africa's Limpopo province that borders Zimbabwe.Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesAnd 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.More BBC Africa stories from this week:‘Always told to play the maid’ - tears and anger for acting legend'I fear for my sons': Mother awaits DNA results on remains linked to Kenya's starvation cultLost in translation: How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap'A bullet went through my skull': Tanzania abduction survivorGetty Images/BBCGo to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.Follow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafricaBBC Africa podcastsFocus on AfricaThis Is AfricaPhotographyAfrica
