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AFP / Delil Souleiman

Kurdish women fighters

Delil Souleiman Thursday 30 March 2017

"When I photograph the women fighters fighting Daesh, it reassures me that there is justice in this world," writes photographer Delil Souleiman.

"Daesh has mercilessly killed and raped women, children and the elderly. And here you have girls leaving everything to go and fight them. It gives me faith that there is some justice in the fight between good and evil, between light and darkness."

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Mad days in the court of King Donald

Sebastian Smith Wednesday 16 October 2019

"Standing a sofa's length from President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, I realized I was listening to the leader of the free world rage on the subject of jockstraps," writes Sebastian Smith.

"As so often before in this job of White House correspondent, I felt my eyes bulge in amazement. Then I took a deep breath, refocused, and tried to speed up my note taking. After all, it was just another day in the Trump White House."

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AFP / Alexander Joe

Zimbabwe's 'end of an error'

Susan Njanji Friday 11 October 2019

"I had just stepped out of the shower, wrapped in a bath towel and my hair dripping, when the sound on my cell phone filled me with dread," writes Johannesburg-based journalist Susan Njanji. 

"The ringtone signalled that messages were pouring into a WhatsApp group that was usually very quiet. One glance at the screen confirmed it -- 'this death is going to happen exactly the way I had been hoping to avoid,' I thought before frantically starting a long flurry of calls."

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AFP / Peter Parks

China then and now

Patrick Baert Thursday 3 October 2019

"I could feel something was amiss as soon as I started walking down the street in downtown Beijing," writes Patrick Baert, on when he returned to the country after a 15-year absence to take up the post of bureau chief. "No-one was paying any attention to me."

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AFP / Mohd Rasfan

Changed forever

Jerome Taylor Wednesday 2 October 2019

"When I took over as AFP’s bureau chief for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan last December there was a part of me that worried the posting might be too quiet," writes Jerome Taylor.

... And then came the extradition bill.

 

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