AFP’s Guerchom Ndebo crowned winner of the Avenir Photo section of the Albert Kahn Prize
Lava from the eruption reached the suburbs of Goma, destroying 17 villages, with 20,000 people left homeless and 400,000 evacuated.
Geneva (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 18:05:54 | Fresh US sanctions on ICC 'unacceptable': UN rights chief
Jerusalem (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 17:53:01 | Israel army chief vows in Syria not to allow threats along border
Washington (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 17:49:46 | Trump says North Korea has 57 nuclear weapons
Washington (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 17:38:09 | Trump says will meet North Korea's Kim later this year
Sourbrodt (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 16:20:27 | Last evacuation orders lifted in Belgian fire zone
Bouar (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 16:14:47 | Gold mine collapse kills at least 100 people in C.Africa: local sources
Seoul (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 15:40:16 | North Korea says US scaling back South Korea drills 'not worth commenting on'
Seoul (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 15:30:51 | North Korea leader's sister says 'unaware' of reported Kim-Trump communication
Geneva (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 15:29:03 | UN slams Russia election ban on anti-war party, sentencing of opposition politician
Paris (AFP) | 19/08/2026 - 15:15:04 | France had 1,243 excess deaths during July heatwave: health authority
Lava from the eruption reached the suburbs of Goma, destroying 17 villages, with 20,000 people left homeless and 400,000 evacuated.
AFP publishes a new photo album: "The Year That Changed Our World"
David Gray has been honored three times for his coverage of the 2021 Australian Open tennis tournament.
Starting with the elections in Uganda, moving to the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, stepping into the Tigray region of Ethiopia, crossing continents to cover both Olympics and Paralympics in his home country, Japan, before returning to Kenya; Yasuyoshi Chiba recalls a year full of rich experiences and stories in a context of uncertainty, as he tells The Guardian:
Josh Edelson, an AFP contributor since 2012, is one of two photo category winners of the inaugural Covering Climate Now journalism awards.
The prize recognises his extraordinary coverage for AFP of massive wildfires that ravaged large areas of northern California last summer.
In its award citation, the foundation said that Hood’s work stands out “for his ability to synthesize complex scientific models and studies and explain them in simple terms, but also for his broad vision in communicating climate change”.
The award is not for a single piece of work but is given to “communications professionals who have contributed decisively to inform individual and collective engagement with the ecological challenges of our time.”