He won the prize, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his picture of a girl screaming in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011.
06/12/2011 - Kabul, Afghanistan - AFP/Massoud Hossaini
Twenty years after war broke out in Bosnia, the AFP Foundation, the Council of Europe, and the Press Council and Journalists Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina stage a major debate in Sarajevo on the role of the media in the country today.
FRANCE’S VERSION OF THE HUFFINGTON POST WEBSITE WHICH LAUNCHED ON FEBRUARY 23 HAS SUBSCRIBED TO AFP’S TEXT AND PHOTO SERVICE.
Sagem Wireless and Agence France Press (AFP) partner to provide sports news and multimedia content through PUMA WORLD portal
At the 18th Malofiej festival, the world graphics fair, in Pamplona, Spain, last week, AFP collected a bronze medal for the animated graphic on the 15 sports in the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Agence France-Presse Thursday teamed up with Pakistan's largest private news agency to launch the first international Urdu-language news service. The partnership between AFP and the Online International News Network will provide an average of 50 news, feature, sport and business stories per day from AFP's global output to Urdu clients in India, Pakistan and elsewhere.
The board of the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday appointed Emmanuel Hoog, an experienced administrator of media and cultural bodies, as its new chairman and chief executive.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is teaming up with the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s giant newspaper group, to supply AFP clients worldwide with news pictures from Japan.
THE BOARD MET DEC 13, 2011 TO APPROVE THE AFP INTERIM RESULTS UP TO END-JUNE WHICH SHOWED THAT THE AGENCY HIT ITS TARGET FOR SALES, AT 140.3 MILLION EUROS, OPERATING PROFIT AT 9.0 MILLION EUROS AND NET PROFIT AT 200,000 EUROS.
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on December 25, 1991, bringing an end to the Soviet Union.
