Burundi: RFI and AFP file court complaint for torture of their correspondent

Faced with a lack of any action following an attack on their Burundi correspondent Esdras Ndikumana on August 2 as he carried out his work, RFI and AFP have filed a complaint for torture against persons unknown at the supreme court in Bujumbura.

Faced with a lack of any action following an attack on their Burundi correspondent Esdras Ndikumana on August 2 as he carried out his work, RFI and AFP have filed a complaint for torture against persons unknown at the supreme court in Bujumbura.
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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 extends its fact-checking operation to a fifth Latin American country

AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operation in Spanish through a new contract with Facebook covering Uruguay.

AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operation in Spanish through a new contract with Facebook covering Uruguay.

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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The Beijing bureau on video

The Beijing bureau on video

The Beijing bureau has 15 journalists, four assistants, a marketing manager, a technician and three office administrators.

The team is shown in this video, which is the first stage of a tour of AFP bureaux in pictures.

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