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The Tunisia uprising's 'man with a cage'

Caroline-Nelly Perrot Thursday 10 December 2020

Ten years ago the photo of young demonstrator Wadii Jelassi holding up a bird cage and a Tunisian flag as he was carried along by the crowd became one of the symbols of the north African country’s revolution, the first of a series of uprisings which were to sweep across the Middle East. Tunis bureau chief Caroline-Nelly Perrot looks back on those days through the testimonies of Jelassi and AFP photographer Fethi Belaid who captured that moment with his iconic image.

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  • AFP / Hector Retamal
  • AFP / Hector Retamal
  • AFP / Hector Retamal
  • AFP / Hector Retamal

Four seasons in Wuhan

Hector Retamal Friday 4 December 2020

"​I headed to the train station to go to Wuhan. My bosses phoned to discuss their concerns about the mission. I insisted on going. I reminded them that I had already covered a cholera epidemic in Haiti", writes Hector Retamal, AFP's eastern China photographer. "I truly grasped the seriousness of the situation when the high-speed train arrived after four hours in Wuhan. Hardly anyone got off the train". 

After the lockdown Hector Retamal went back several times to Wuhan and could watch the city's slow return to normal.  The prestigious picture desk of The Guardian has chosen Hector as its agency photographer of the year . 

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  • AFP / Sameer Al-doumy
  • AFP / Sameer Al-doumy
  • AFP / Sameer Al-doumy
  • AFP / Sameer Al-doumy
  • AFP / Sameer Al-doumy

Crossing the sea together, yet miles apart

Clément Melki , Thomas Bernardi, Sameer al-Doumy Sunday 15 November 2020

Lille (France) - Any journalist posted to AFP's Lille bureau inevitably cuts their teeth by reporting on the migrants in Calais.  Even now, four years after the notorious Jungle camp was dismantled, the first thing that hits you driving into the northern French city are the towering barbed-wire fences along the motorway, meant to stop stowaways on trucks and ferries bound for England. Despite the dangers, tragically highlighted in October when a Kurdish-Iranian family drowned when their boat capsized, the number of those crossing the Channel keeps growing.

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  • AFP / Bulent Kilic
  • AFP / Karen Minasyan
  • AFP / Alexander Nemenov

Nagorno-Karabakh: two wars at once

Bülent Kiliç, Emmanuel Peuchot, Kadir Demir Saturday 14 November 2020

When they left, they took with them all the usual kit for reporting on a conflict: bulletproof vests, helmets, satellite phones and first-aid supplies. But, as the AFP journalists dispatched to Nagorno-Karabakh discovered, covering a war in the time of coronavirus brings a whole new dimension to staying safe.

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  • AFP / Xavier Galiana
  • AFP / Xavier Galiana

Journey to the top of the earth

Bhuvan Bagga Friday 23 October 2020

“The road to the most isolated corner of the Indian Himalayas is almost overwhelming in its otherworldly beauty,” writes Bhuvan Bagga, AFP’s New Delhi correspondent. “But the scenery is harder to enjoy while hopelessly lost, in the middle of a rainstorm, and without a single other human in sight.”

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