Africa's top shots: 29 November - 5 December 2019

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

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Firemen stand on tables to extinguish a blaze at the headquarters of Ghana's tax agency in the capital, Accra, on Sunday.
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On the same day, children lights candles in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to remember those who have died of HIV/Aids.
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A video installation, entitled In Pursuit of Bling, is exhibited at a museum in Cape Town in South Africa on Tuesday...
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Here, a visitor views a textile piece entitled Double Plot. It is the work of Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga who explores damage caused to the environment...
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Visitors are urged by the artist to remember that the earth is "undeniably alive", and to see it as an extension of the human body.
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While on Friday, members of a band take part in a climate protest in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa.
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On Tuesday, these people leave for higher ground after their village in western Kenya was flooded. More than 250 people have died in floods and landslides across East Africa in recent weeks.
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While in drought-hit southern Africa, water levels at the world-famous Victoria Falls are far lower than usual, as seen here on the Zimbabwean side.
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On Monday, a worker is seen washing her shoes before she enters a mobile phone electronics factory in Namanve in central Uganda...
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Here, a worker assembles a mobile phone motherboard at the factory, the only one of its kind in Uganda.

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