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Who killed Paul Guihard?

Laurent Kalfala, David Lory, Frederic Bourgeais 30 September 2022

Exactly 60 years ago AFP reporter Paul Guihard was murdered as white rioters protested against the University of Mississippi admitting its first Black student. He was only the journalist killed covering the US civil rights struggle, and mystery still surrounds his death

Elijah Nouvelage / AFP
Carl De Souza / AFP
Asaad Niazi / AFP
Valery Hache / AFP

Watching the world burn

Marlowe Hood 5 September 2022

With climate disasters piling up, global warming is getting worse – fast. We had better learn to embrace our despair, argues AFP’s environmental editor Marlowe Hood

An unfinished conversation

Joao Laet 5 July 2022

The murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon jungle shocked the world. But photographer João Laet, who covered the search for AFP, felt it even more. He was Phillips’ friend

AFP / Oli Scarff
AFP / Oli Scarff
AFP / Peter Kohalmi

When seconds seem like hours

27 June 2022

Oli Scarff’s heart-stopping photographs of swimmer Anita Alvarez losing consciousness as she took part in the World Aquatic Championships in Budapest moved millions

AFP / Hector Retamal
AFP / Hector Retamal
AFP / Hector Retamal
AFP / Liu Jin

Locked in, looking out: Shanghai’s endless zero-Covid nightmare

Vivian Lin 24 May 2022

Robot dogs, quarantine camps and interminable Covid tests . . . AFP video journalist Vivian Lin on living through Shanghai’s never-ending lockdown

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