Photo story of the year, winner
The Migrant Caravan: during October and November 2018, thousands of Central American migrants joined a caravan heading to the US border. The caravan, assembled through a grassroots social media campaign, left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 12 October 2018, and as word spread drew people from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala
Photograph: Pieter Ten Hoopen/Agence VU/Civilian Act
The Migrant Caravan: during October and November 2018, thousands of Central American migrants joined a caravan heading to the US border. The caravan, assembled through a grassroots social media campaign, left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 12 October 2018, and as word spread drew people from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala
Photograph: Pieter Ten Hoopen/Agence VU/Civilian Act
Environment, singles winner
Petronella Chigumbura, an elite member of the all-female conservation ranger force known as Akashinga that operates in Zimbabwe’s Lower Zambezi, undergoes sniper movement and concealment training in the bush near their base. Akashinga (meaning the ‘Brave Ones’) is a community-driven conservation model, empowering disadvantaged women to restore and manage a network of wilderness areas as an alternative to trophy hunting
Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Petronella Chigumbura, an elite member of the all-female conservation ranger force known as Akashinga that operates in Zimbabwe’s Lower Zambezi, undergoes sniper movement and concealment training in the bush near their base. Akashinga (meaning the ‘Brave Ones’) is a community-driven conservation model, empowering disadvantaged women to restore and manage a network of wilderness areas as an alternative to trophy hunting
Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Muzaffarnagar, India
A Muslim woman walks toward a polling station to cast her vote in the village of Shahpur
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
A Muslim woman walks toward a polling station to cast her vote in the village of Shahpur
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
General news, stories winner
Yemen crisis: a veiled woman begs outside a grocery store in the village of Azzan, which was under the control of al-Qaida until the Shabwani Elite forces liberated the area in December 2017. This armed group is aligned with a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE and is operating in the area in the fight against al-Qaida. Over the past year, the shadow war between al-Qaida and local Yemeni fighters has intensified, largely out of the headlines
Photograph: Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post/Contrasto
Yemen crisis: a veiled woman begs outside a grocery store in the village of Azzan, which was under the control of al-Qaida until the Shabwani Elite forces liberated the area in December 2017. This armed group is aligned with a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE and is operating in the area in the fight against al-Qaida. Over the past year, the shadow war between al-Qaida and local Yemeni fighters has intensified, largely out of the headlines
Photograph: Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post/Contrasto
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A worker stands near victims’ bones displayed after being recovered from pits used as mass graves during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and hidden under houses in Kabuga, in the outskirts ofthe capital
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
A worker stands near victims’ bones displayed after being recovered from pits used as mass graves during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and hidden under houses in Kabuga, in the outskirts ofthe capital
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
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