A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday.

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A Pride float makes it way through the CBD. "It is short-lived and not people's lived reality. It doesn't go into the communities," Benson-Mabombo told AFP. South Africa is the sole African ...