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07/11/2025 - 15:23

Josh Edelson wins the 2025 Varenne/Canon Grand Prize

American photographer Josh Edelson has won the 2025 Varenne/Canon Grand Prize for Photojournalism for his series “Deadly Wildfires in California”, produced as part of his collaboration with AFP. The award recognises his unique eye, capable of restoring both the force and the tragedy of a disaster we thought we already knew by heart.

21/10/2025 - 12:50

AFP statement on brief detention of journalist in Nigeria

On October 20, 2025, police in Nigeria briefly detained AFP video journalist John Okunyomih outside the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in the capital Abuja.

02/04/2025 - 16:02

AFP photographer Jim Watson honored at the WHCA Journalism Awards 2025

The AFP photographer was honored during the 2025 WHCA Journalism Awards edition, organised every year by the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA).

27/03/2025 - 12:00

AFP Honoured at the 2025 World Press Photo Awards

The famous photojournalism competition has announced the regional winners of its 2025 edition. AFP has been recognised in the Stories category for North and Central America as well as for Africa, and in the Singles category for the Asia-Pacific & Oceania region and South America.

27/03/2025 - 10:44

AFP to Participate in Media Literacy Week Conference with the Lakmusz-HDMO Project for International Fact-Checking Day

AFP, alongside its partners in the Lakmusz-HDMO project—an initiative funded by the European Union to combat disinformation—is participating in a week-long event in Budapest to mark International Fact-Checking Day on 2 April 2025.

24/03/2025 - 13:30

AFP represented at the “Democracy Matters – Facts Matter” Conference in Brussels

The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN), of which AFP is a co-founder and verified member, is co-organising the policy-focused conference "Democracy Matters – Facts Matter" with the European Parliament and the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) in Brussels on 25-26 March 2025.

21/03/2025 - 13:17

AFP Honoured at the 2025 Istanbul Photo Awards

Omar Al-Qattaa, Eyad Baba, Sameer Al-Doumy and Luis Tato were recognised at the 2025 edition of the Istanbul Photo Awards.

18/03/2025 - 17:40

'Really suffocating': Pakistan emerges from record smog season

Tens of millions of Pakistanis spent at least four months breathing toxic air pollution 20 times above safe levels, in the worst winter smog season for several years, according to data analysed by AFP.