Africa’s year in pictures 2022: Carnivals, gallops and tugs of war




A selection of the year’s best photos from across the continent and beyond:

A young boy watches a horse race in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Sunday 30 January 2022

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A kid, camel rider, smiles while his camel scratches his back in the sand after the Wadi Zalaga annual camel race.

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Men shout, jump and smile, some take a selfie. February

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People stand behind a cordon. They use their mobile phones as torches. February

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Supporters hold fans that have the face of CAR President Faustin Archange Touadera at a rally in Bangui, CAR - Friday 18 March 2022

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Motorbike riders at a petrol station in Bukavu, DR Congo - Wednesday 16 March 2022

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People with blue and yellow painted faces in Ivory Coast - Saturday 30 April 2022

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Women with emotional expressions at a funeral. They are sitting in blue pews and appear to be socially distanced. April

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Kenyan activists from the Social Justice Centres Working Group, shout slogans and hold placards during a People's March against the high cost of living in the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, 17 May 2022

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Traditional dancers perform as the remains of slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba arrive on June 26, 2022 in Shilatembo where the leader was killed along with two of his compatriots

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Egypt's team competes in the preliminaries for the women's team technical artistic swimming event during the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships at the Alfred Hajos Swimming Complex in Budapest on 19 June.

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Women dressed in a patterned white a blue outfit with horn blowers. They are celebrating - July

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AUGUST 02: Chioma Onyekwere of Team Nigeria competes during the Women's Discus Throw Final on day five of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

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A police officer firing from a gun. August

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women wearing bright yellow holding Kenyan flag dancing and celebrating. September

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An Orthodox choir parade during the celebrations in the eve of the Ethiopian Orthodox holiday of Meskel, in Addis Ababa on September 26, 2022. - The Ethiopia Meskel celebration is an annual religious holiday in the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It commemorates the supposed discovery in the fourth century by the Roman Empress Helena of the True Cross upon which Jesus was crucified.

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Topless men walking through flood waters. There is a submerged building behind them. October

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Three people wearing medical scrubs and putting white gloves on. October

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New members of South Sudan Police Service (SSPS) of the Unified Forces attend with handmade wooden rifles or sticks the graduation ceremony in Malakal on November 21, 2022

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A resident throws water from a bucket as a fire rages through shacks in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa, 21 November 2022

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Fan of Morocco cheers at the Souq Waqif market during the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Doha, Qatar, 17 December 2022. Croatia will face Morocco in their FIFA World Cup 2022 third place soccer match on 17 December 2022.

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People from the Suba ethnic group playing tug of war at the Rusinga Cultural Festival in Kenya - 23 Dcember 2022

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