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In_pictures Africa’s week in pictures: 12-18 June 2020

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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond.
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On Monday in Senegal’s capital city, Dakar, artists from the Radikal Bomb Shot collective paint a mural in tribute to African and African-American activists…
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Part of their mural quotes Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, saying: “The negation of black Africans’ history and intellectual achievements was the cultural, mental murder which proceeded and paved the way for genocide in the world.”
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In Italy there are calls to remove a statue of Indro Montanelli, pictured on Sunday having been daubed in red paint and tagged with the words “racist, rapist”. The journalist admitted buying and marrying a 12-year-old Eritrean girl in the 1930s during army service under Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
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In Paris on Saturday, protesters demand justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old man who died in police custody four years ago in circumstances likened to George Floyd’s death in the US. An autopsy requested by Traoré’s family showed that he died of asphyxiation.
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Following campaigns and protests the Belgian city of Ghent is to remove this statue of King Leopold II, under whose reign as many as 10 million people were murdered in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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On Tuesday in Cape Town activists call for the removal of this colonial-era statue of Louis Botha, the first prime minister of South Africa.
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