Africa's week in pictures: 3-9 April 2020
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent:
Children play on a beach in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Friday despite a police officer's attempt to disperse them as part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
On Wednesday, residents of Kibera slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, line up to get water being distributed for free by the government as part of its coronavirus response...
On the same day, a boy rides past a mural about Covid-19 in Nairobi's Mathare slum...
Workers are seen at a clothes factory in the Kenyan town of Kitui on Tuesday. It has begun making personal protective equipment 24 hours a day in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Graffiti encouraging people to wear face masks to protect themselves from the virus is seen on a wall in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, on Wednesday.
On the same day, Chinese medics arrive at the airport in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to help the West African nation in its battle against coronavirus...
In the city on Thursday, a pineapple seller calls out to punters at a street market.
A trader sleeps next to his melons on Wednesday in Uganda's capital, Kampala. As part of the country's lockdown restrictions vendors have to sleep in markets.
On the same day, a cat looks down from a window in the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
A dog in the South African city of Cape Town looks out at health workers on Tuesday…
They were going door-to-door in the historic suburb of Bo-Kaap as part of nationwide Covid-19 screening…
As part of the campaign on Saturday, a health worker teaches children in a township near Durban how to wash their hands.
Medics about to treat a Covid-19 patient in Tunisia's capital, Tunis, help each other put on protective equipment on Tuesday...
A newly wed couple pose on the empty streets of Sidi Bou Said on Saturday. They married without any guests present because of Tunisia's coronavirus restrictions on social gatherings.
Women have their hair done on Thursday at a salon in Bujumbura, the main city in Burundi, where there is no coronavirus lockdown.
Illegal money traders in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, take advantage of an easing of a lockdown on Wednesday.
A masked farmer covers his crops to protect them from birds on the outskirts of Botswana's capital, Gaborone, on Sunday.
Church goers pray with little heed to social distancing during a Palm Sunday service in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam on Sunday.
And on the same day, Orthodox Christians pray outside after police officers barred them from entering a cathedral in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Images: AFP, EPA and Reuters