Trailer Typhon Philippines - Visa pour l’image 2014 - EN

Typhoon in the Philippines: AFP, leading in the wake of Haiyan

Ted Aljibe - Odd Andersen - Nicolas Asfouri - Noel Celis - Philippe Lopez

On November 8, 2013, eyes around the world were focused on the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan struck. Within a few minutes, whole districts had been flattened, demolished by the extraordinary force of the typhoon with winds gusting over 315 km/h (c. 200 mph).

The toll was more than 8000 dead and missing.

Trailer Favela - Visa pour l’image 2014 - EN

Football as seen through the eyes of children in Cidade de Deus favela

Christophe Simon, AFP chief photographer in Brazil, gathered together a group of 18 teenagers in Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro, and, working together, they photographed their everyday life featuring their love of football, and at a time before every camera in the world was focused on Brazil and the 2014 Football World Cup.

AFP signs new agreement with SINA Sports

AFP and SINA Sports have signed a content agreement allowing the leading Beijing-based news portal to feature AFP’s extensive coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics and Euro Soccer Championship.

AFP and SINA Sports have signed a content agreement allowing the leading Beijing-based news portal to feature AFP’s extensive coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics and Euro Soccer Championship.
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The AFP Foundation today announced the launch of the first independent, non-partisan fact-checking website in francophone West Africa

The website www.fr.africacheck.org was devised and developed by the AFP Foundation, with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and in a partnership with the EJICOM journalism school in Dakar, Senegal, where its editorial team is based.

The website www.fr.africacheck.org was devised and developed by the AFP Foundation, with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and in a partnership with the EJICOM journalism school in Dakar, Senegal, where its editorial team is based.
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AFP wins second Rory Peck Award for video stringers in the News category

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