AFP Wins 8 Prizes at the 2019 POYi Awards
Nicolas Asfouri, an AFP photographer based in Beijing, won the Excellence Award in the "General News" category for his photo of a protester in the streets of Hong Kong.
Nicolas Asfouri, an AFP photographer based in Beijing, won the Excellence Award in the "General News" category for his photo of a protester in the streets of Hong Kong.
Nairobi-based AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba was nominated in both the World Press Photo of the Year and the General News - Singles categories for his image of a young man reciting a poem during protests in Sudan.
The award, named after one of AFP's finest correspondents, recognises journalism by locally hired reporters in Asia operating in risky or difficult conditions.
AFP will be present at the 2020 edition of BOBCATSSS, an annual conference which deals this year with information and disinformation.
Applications closed on December 31, 2019 and we have been impressed by the very large number of candidates.
For weeks, AFP journalists from the Jerusalem bureau interviewed 10 of the last survivors of Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp that has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
As part of its series of exclusive multimedia special reports, AFP is broadcasting a special report on Antarctica to mark the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, as well as the 60 year anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty signed on December 1st 1959 in Washington.