When he travelled to the strife-torn Central African Republic in February, Issouf Sanogo witnessed an extraordinary scene after a visit by President Samba Panza. "As her car revs up to leave, dozens of women and children start running behind it, jumping with joy, laughing and yelling," he writes. "That brief explosion of joy, captured on camera, is such a relief, so different from the atrocities I have been photographing."

"I took this picture on July 1 in the port of Pozzallo at the southern tip of Sicily. It shows migrant families waiting to disembark from an Italian navy ship after being rescued in the Strait of Sicily," writes Giovanni Isolino. "Covering migrant landings and shipwrecks, sometimes you see children arriving alone. And even when they have their families, they are usually upset, and frightened. Seeing a child smile like this is something very rare, and special."