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Topshots of the Week (25 - 31 May 2024)

 

A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from 25th to 31th May 2024.

A man pushes a trolley with a poster of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema in Juju Valley, Polokwane, on May 29, 2024, during South Africa's general election. The informal settlement was the scene of violence this week between the African National Congress (ANC) and EFF. South Africans vote on May 29, 2024 in what may be the most consequential election in decades, as dissatisfaction with the ruling ANC threatens to end its 30-year political dominance. 
© Paul BOTES / AFP

French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) party member of parliament Sebastien Delogu waves a Palestinian national flag during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on May 28, 2024. French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) party member of parliament Sebastien Delogu displayed a Palestinian national flag during the government question of session on Tuesday 28, causing President of the French National Assembly to interrupt the session and denounce the "unacceptable" behaviour.​
© Miguel MEDINA / AFP

Locals react during search and rescue efforts at the site of a landslide at Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 29, 2024. Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said on May 30. Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.
© Emmanuel ERALIA / AFP

A girl walks amid her damaged house after cyclone Remal's landfall in Patuakhali on May 28, 2024. Cyclone Remal, which made landfall in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring India on May 26 evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, left at least 21 people dead, destroyed thousands of homes, smashed seawalls and flooded cities across the two countries.
© Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP

Spain's Rafael Nadal reacts after losing his men's singles match against Germany's Alexander Zverev on Court Philippe-Chatrier on day two of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros Complex in Paris on May 27, 2024.
© Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP

A demonstrator shout slogans during a pro-Palestinian rally called "Urgent action for Rafah", in front of the Israeli embassy in Mexico City on May 28, 2024.
© Pedro PARDO / AFP

A man holding a flag of Ukrainian 55th Artillery Brigade kneels down at a memorial area with Ukrainian and other countries flags commemorating fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters at the Independence Square, in Kyiv, on May 27, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.​
© Roman PILIPEY / AFP

Palestinians fleeing unsafe areas in Rafah arrive with their belongings in Khan Yunis, further north in the southern Gaza Strip, following renewed Israeli strikes on May 28, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. Israel again bombarded Gaza's far-southern Rafah area on May 28 despite a global storm of outrage over a strike that set ablaze a crowded tent city the previous day.
© Bashar TALEB / AFP