AFP is launching Sur le fil, a short online podcast, intimate and rigorous, that takes news directly from the source thanks to the Agency’s unparalleled network of journalists deployed in 151 countries.

AFP’s Sales and Marketing department has elected journalist Sarah Stewart Sales and Marketing Director for the Asia-Pacific region.

Agence France-Presse is making changes to its management team, with the appointment of new directors at the helm of the Latin America, Africa, North America regions and the Brand and Communications department, effective between April and July 2021.

Entitled ‘My Afghanistan’, this award is organized by Agence France-Presse in honour of Shah Marai, who was chief photographer at the AFP Kabul bureau when he was killed in a suicide attack on April 30, 2018, aged just 41. Throughout his career, Shah Marai was an example for Afghan photographers, capturing unique pictures of his country with passion and tenderness.

Longstanding global partnership continues to provide newsrooms around the world with unrivalled visual coverage of news, sport and entertainment.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) was the first independent media to reach Tigray since the Ethiopian government launched a major military operation against the dissident authorities in the far northern region of the country.

Ten years after its creation, AFP-Services, a subsidiary of Agence France-Presse, specializing in on-demand custom content, becomes FACTSTORY, a distinct service offering commissioned production to companies and institutions.

For the 27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents’ Award, which runs from 5 to 13 October 2020, the work of AFP photographers is on display in the streets of Bayeux.