5 January 2018, BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42570173
A selection of the best photos from across and about Africa this week:
Onlookers are awed during New Year celebrations in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe…
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The concert at Victoria Falls Farm School ended a three-day carnival in the resort town…
Cheers break out in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after crowds count down to the New Year at an event at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre...
In South Africa, the mobile phones are out to capture the New Year fireworks in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square…
Earlier on Sunday in the South African city of Cape Town, men play out the old year at sunset to the crowds on Scarborough beach...
The next day, South Africans flock to Durban beach to bathe and welcome 2018…
It was religious cleansing for the followers of South Africa's Nazareth Baptist Church, also known as Shembe, during their ceremony on Sunday ahead of a pilgrimage to the mountain of Nhlongakazi north of Durban.
On Tuesday, people dress up for Cape Town's Minstrels Carnival, which dates back to the era when slaves in the Cape Colony were given the day after New Year off.
It is New Year see-sawing for children in a park in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Monday.
On Wednesday, stewardesses of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway pose after the arrival of the first commercial train from the Ethiopian capital at platform at Djibouti's Nagad station.
On the same day, Eritrean refugees smoke water pipes at a makeshift cafe outside the Holot detention facility near Nitzana in the Negev Desert along Israel's border with Egypt.
On Sunday, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir arrives to address the nation at the palace in the capital, Khartoum, on the 62nd anniversary of the country's independence.
It is good to see Liberia's "Daily Talk" chalkboard paper is still going - here people on New Year's Eve in the capital, Monrovia, read final results of the run-off elections which saw ex-footballer George Weah winning the presidency.
And on the same day, a small herd of cows is pictured taking a break on the sands of the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar.
Images courtesy of AFP, EPA, PA, Reuters and Getty Images
Africa has some beautiful countries and very nice people.
Prashad posted:Africa has some beautiful countries and very nice people.
It sure does. I've been working on some African projects and learning a lot. Kenya had riots after their recent election, an international medical team went on a WHO mission and had armed guards throughout their stay. I'll be dealing with Senegal next.
Senegal. That is the country that some of my ancestors are from.
Akon must be you cousin.
Prashad posted:Senegal. That is the country that some of my ancestors are from.
looks like Prashad is a closet muslim
Pointblank posted:Prashad posted:Senegal. That is the country that some of my ancestors are from.
looks like Prashad is a closet muslim
I don't think Prashad is of this civilization. Seems like the man is above the human race.
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