Africa’s week in pictures
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A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week:
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![Members of the congregation dressed in matching red.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/ECF9/production/_129356606_hi083736953.jpg)
More than 800 couples flock to a Pentecostal church in Kgabalatsane, South Africa, for a mass wedding ceremony on Easter Sunday
![A bride dances as she arrives at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zuurbekom, south of Johannesburg.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7765/production/_129356503_gettyimages-1251130398.jpg)
On the same day, this bride dances as she arrives for a mass wedding at a Pentecostal church south of Johannesburg
![People eat from from a communal plate.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9ED9/production/_129356604_gettyimages-1251105568.jpg)
The day before, these men dig into an Iftar feast in Sudan’s capital Khartoum during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
![People line long tables for an iftar feast in a residential neighbourhood.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2945/production/_129356501_gettyimages-1250834749.jpg)
Meanwhile a grander gathering in Egypt’s capital Cairo sees hundreds break their fast at communal tables
![Kew staff member Florence Akanbi-Guei tends to an enset tree.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AB59/production/_129356834_hi083787969.jpg)
A nutritious Ethiopian enset tree, also known as the false banana, flowers for the first time at Kew Gardens in the the UK’s capital city of London
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![A Coptic Orthodox Christian attends a Palm Sunday mass.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16229/production/_129356609_hi083728349.jpg)
On Sunday, Coptic Christians adorn themselves with white robes and palm crosses at mass in Egypt’s Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery
![A woman looks from the window of a laundry service in the Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/158C9/production/_129356288_4a6815a0-9658-4f3a-927a-ab1f2ece6f23.jpg)
Days earlier on Good Friday, this resident of Nairobi takes in the scene
![Kenyan Catholic devotee Joseph Browlins portrays Jesus Christ during a re-enactment of the crucifixion.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D269/production/_129356835_8c7963a8-0a05-4f81-b0db-8d76546553eb.jpg)
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Browlins is among a group of Catholics in the Kenyan capital re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
![A worshipper takes part in the re-enactment of the passion of Christ during celebrations marking Good Friday.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13669/production/_129356497_gettyimages-1250856086.jpg)
It is a similar scene in Nigeria where this worshipper acts the part of Jesus, wig and all, during festivities in the city of Lagos
![Close to a thousand children received a hot cross bun and a Easter egg on Good Friday in Lavender Hill, Cape Town, South Africa. Mark Nicholson operates a feeding scheme, sports club and an arts and culture centre here.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18489/production/_129356499_gettyimages-1251732723.jpg)
Also on Good Friday, hundreds of children queue for hot cross buns and Easter eggs in Cape Town, South Africa
![Traditional Egyptian dancers perform the Tanoura, an Egyptian version of Sufi dance.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BC89/production/_129356284_hi083800314.jpg)
On Wednesday, dancers perform the Tanoura in Cairo’s al-Ghouri Palace
![A dancer performs on stage as part of Made Kuti's show in Lagos.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13B19/production/_129356608_hi083744485.jpg)
On Sunday in Lagos, dancers and musicians perform on stage with Made Kuti – grandson of Nigerian music icon Fela Kuti
![A tourist takes photos of the Victoria waterfall at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0299/production/_129356600_gettyimages-1250854475.jpg)
And on Friday, tourists spot a rainbow over Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe