Bayeux-Calvados awards two AFP war correspondents

Two Agence France-Presse photographers were awarded prizes at the annual Bayeux-Calvados photo festival on Saturday.

AFP photographer Walter Astrada took home the photo award for his work in Antananarivo entitled “Bloodbath in Madagascar” while Mohamed Dahir, 25, won the young reporter prize for his coverage of events in Mogadishu between March and May 2009, entitled "Mogadishu: One of the World's Most Dangerous Cities."

The Bayeux-Calvados award was created in 1994 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, also known as D-Day, in remembrance of the war reporters of the time.