This photo of a Ghanaian sister and brother enjoying a snack, taken by E Tweyl, is the first of a series of African food and drink images sent to by BBC News website this year.
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Peeter Viisimaa sent in this picture of a family sitting down for a meal in Benin...
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... and this photograph of Beninois women preparing pots of food outside.
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This young Ethiopian girl smiles for Ulrik Pedersen while eating some flat injera bread.
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Also in Ethiopia, Ken Hama photographed some men chewing the mild stimulant khat.
yuko-ogura
heal the world~~
make it a better place~~
for u and for mi and the entire human race~~
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The female chief of a village on Lake Bunyoni in Uganda enjoys a pipe in this picture taken by Shelley Fulton.
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Men share some local corn juice, known as pure water, ahead of a week-long festival of dancing and sacrifice in Nigeria's Dadiya hills in Joe Mulligan's picture.
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In this picture taken in East Africa by Alison Campbell Smith, a five-year-old boy savours a bottle of Fanta.
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These unemployed men in Uganda have a drink and smoke together in Ed Forrest's photo.
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School children sit down to a meal in Ghana in this photo from Colleen Foley and Elisia Carlson.