Africa Check: african Fact-Checking Awards 2017
Journalists from Kenya and Benin took the top prizes at this year’s African Fact-Checking Awards in Johannesburg on Saturday, November 18th
Cúcuta (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 13:32:20 | Car bomb explodes in Colombia days before presidential inauguration
Moscow (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 12:31:28 | Ukraine sinks Russian-owned container ship in Black Sea: company
Copenhagen (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 12:30:43 | Majority of EU countries call for talks over migrant influx into Ceuta enclave
Paris (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 12:16:00 | France's largest wildfire in decades 'under control': minister
Kyiv (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 12:10:09 | Russia fired record number of missiles at Ukraine in July: AFP analysis
Madrid (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 11:51:11 | Situation in Spanish enclave Ceuta has returned to almost normal: minister
Madrid (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 11:29:48 | At least 67 people died in recent migrant surge in Ceuta: Spanish minister
Brussels (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 11:15:12 | Spanish PM letter blasts 'selfish' reaction by some EU countries to Ceuta crisis, calls for ministers to meet
Addis Ababa (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 10:49:45 | Ethiopia army, Tigray rebels clash, rebel authorities tell AFP
Tehran (AFP) | 01/08/2026 - 10:20:00 | Iran military accuses US of 'escalating tensions' in region
Journalists from Kenya and Benin took the top prizes at this year’s African Fact-Checking Awards in Johannesburg on Saturday, November 18th
Reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu has won the 2017 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb prize for his compelling and rigorous coverage of ethnic strife in his native Myanmar, AFP announced on Tuesday.
New guidelines on coverage of violence against women and increased use of women expert sources are among the topics included in a set of initiatives launched by AFP’s Global News Director Michèle Léridon, aimed at improving the way women are represented in the Agency’s content.
Two AFP photographers – Jim Watson and Brendan Smialowski – were awarded at the 2018 ceremony of the WHNPA.