Africa in pictures: Children at play
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This photo of Rwandan orphans playing, taken by Alison Campbell Smith, is the first of a series of images of children at play in Africa sent to the BBC News website. -
Andre Meerkerk pictured these children playing in a wetland near a school, during a scientific field trip to South Africa. -
Here, children dance in front of Larabanga's mosque in Ghana after the rains stopped in this picture shot by Arwen Kidd. -
In Guinea, Amanda Loveday captured on film this baby, who was plonked in a bucket by his sister near Kindia. -
Boys in Ethiopia enjoy a game of table football in Yiannis Neophytou's photograph. -
Schoolboys play a real match in Jinja, eastern Uganda, in this shot from Shelley Fulton. -
Also in Uganda, these sisters play peek-a-boo in Becca Mahood's photograph. -
In neighbouring Tanzania, Steven Paxton took this shot of a little boy playing the drums in Magohola village on Lake Mtera. -
Leonie Exel sent in this picture of a toddler, who is being treated in the paediatric ward at Uganda's Kiwoko Hospital, having a play on the lawn with his mother. -
This boy, playing the clown, posed for Ralf Thill when he visited Burundi. -
In Peeter Viisimaa's photograph, he captured Beninois siblings playing.