Dakar 2023: Franck Fife wins the Emilie-Poucan photo contest
The winning picture was taken during the prologue of the Dakar 2023 by the Red Sea in Yanbu.
New York (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 21:21:25 | SpaceX officially confirms it will trade Friday on the Nasdaq exchange
Tehran (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 20:43:47 | Tehran has not yet approved text for US deal: source to Iran media
Kuwait City (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 20:39:15 | Kuwait says morning Iran strikes hit airport radar, caused injuries
Washington (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 20:10:49 | Trump names prosecutor Jay Clayton as new US intel chief
London (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:55:59 | UK PM says 'will always do what is needed' to keep country safe
New York (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:54:52 | US stocks rally, oil prices tumble as Trump cancels strikes on Iran
Addis Ababa (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:52:59 | Ethiopia claims Tigrayan forces preparing offensive against govt 'in coming days'
Bogotá (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:50:52 | Colombia leftist candidate says ready to overhaul peace process
Washington (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:40:48 | Trump says canceling Iran strikes, flags possible deal
Tehran (AFP) | 11/06/2026 - 19:21:29 | Iran commander warns of 'more widespread' war if US attacks
The winning picture was taken during the prologue of the Dakar 2023 by the Red Sea in Yanbu.
The Poisoning tells the story of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most determined and outspoken opponent, Alexei Navalny. Navalny was nearly poisoned to death in August 2020 in Siberia and has been held in a high-security prison, some 230 kilometres east of Moscow, for the past two years.
Applications closed on December 31, 2019 and we have been impressed by the very large number of candidates.
For weeks, AFP journalists from the Jerusalem bureau interviewed 10 of the last survivors of Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp that has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
The award, named after one of AFP's finest correspondents, recognises journalism by locally hired reporters in Asia operating in risky or difficult conditions.