AFP wins three prizes at the Human Rights Press Awards
Two AFP photographers honoured on 21 April at the 16th "Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong.
AFP appointments
Pierre Célérier (50), AFP technical editor-in-chief, has been appointed deputy global news director to replace Juliette Hollier Larousse, who has been appointed director for Latin America in Montevideo. Pierre will begin in the new position on 1 July 2012.
AFP awarded six prestigious photo prizes

04/16/2011 - Otsuchi, Japan - AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
A Pulitzer for AFP: Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini wins award
He won the prize, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his picture of a girl screaming in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011.

06/12/2011 - Kabul, Afghanistan - AFP/Massoud Hossaini
Debate in Sarajevo on the role of the media in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Twenty years after war broke out in Bosnia, the AFP Foundation, the Council of Europe, and the Press Council and Journalists Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina stage a major debate in Sarajevo on the role of the media in the country today.
AFP and Japanese news agency JIJI Press have extended an historic collaboration that goes back decades
AFP’s global news coverage in text, photos, and graphics will continue to be made available to Japanese clients via JIJI Press, under an agreement signed in Paris by AFP Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog and JIJI President Masahiro Nakato last wednesday.