A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
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A mural of Egypt and Liverpool football star Mohamed Salah is seen as people sit outside a coffee shop in Egypt’s capital Cairo on Tuesday. Image copyright AFP Image caption
A Somali boy shows his football skills on a beach in the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday. Could he be the next Salah? Image copyright AFP Image caption
Or will these Somali girls prove to be football sensations? Image copyright Reuters Image caption
This Egyptian boy’s mind is far from football. He is reciting a Sufi prayer, which can send people into a trance, in Cairo on Tuesday. Image copyright AFP Image caption
While a Sudanese woman shows the best of her nation at a tourism fair in the Spanish capital Madrid on Wednesday. Image copyright AFP Image caption
In Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, on Friday, a boy walks past a burning barricade erected by protesters who want a ban on street trade, imposed because of an outbreak of cholera, to be lifted. Image copyright AFP Image caption
South African children perform during celebrations to mark the 106th anniversary of the governing African National Congress… Image copyright AFP Image caption
South Africa’s oldest inhabitants, the Khoisan, also attended the celebrations in the coastal city of East London on Saturday. Image copyright AFP Image caption
Berbers, the original inhabitants of North Africa, celebrate their New Year in Ath Mendes, east of the capital, Algiers, on 12 January… Image copyright AFP Image caption
This horseman draped in the Berber flag, took part in the festivities. Image copyright AFP Image caption
On Tuesday, people mark the 17th anniversary of the assassination of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s then President Laurent Kabila, and father of current leader Joseph, in the capital, Kinshasa.