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Topshots of the Week (20-26 May, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (20-26 May, 2023).
A member of the Republican Guard March Band plays a euphonium during the 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa on May 25, 2023.
© Amanuel SILESHI / AFP
Syrian artists paint a mural on the last remaining wall of a collapsed building depicting AFP journalist Arman Soldin, who was killed in the Donbas region while covering the conflict in Ukraine, in Binnish in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on May 23, 2023.
© Omar Haj KADOUR / AFP
Children play football with a plastic bottle in front of demolished buildings in the shantytown of "Talus 2" district in Koungou, during its dismantling as part of Operation Wuambushu on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, on May 23, 2023.
© Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
Flowers and a pair of sunglasses are placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of US-Swiss singer Tina Turner, in Hollywood, California, on May 24, 2023. Rock legend Tina Turner, the growling songstress who electrified audiences from the 1960s and went on to release hit records across five decades, has died at the age of 83, a statement announced on May 24, 2023.
© Patrick T. FALLON / AFP
An Afghan vendor pushes a cart of footwear through a street as it rains in Kabul on May 23, 2023.
© Wakil KOHSAR / AFP
Incandescent materials, ash and smoke are spewed from the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from thr Santiago Xalitzintla community, state of Puebla, Mexico, on May 22, 2023. Mexican authorities on May 21 raised the warning level for the Popocatepetl volcano to one step below red alert, as smoke, ash and molten rock spewed into the sky posing risks to aviation and far-flung communities below.
© Erik GOMEZ TOCHIMANI / AFP
A couple comfort each other during the funeral of Ukrainian soldier Vyacheslav Radionov, killed during fighting in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, during funeral service in Poltava on May 23, 2023.
© Igor TKACHEV / AFP
Protesters sit on top of sandbag barricades as they block the road to opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s house in Ziguinchor, Senegal on May 22, 2023. Protesters have been blocking the roads in Ziguinchor to stop the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko ahead of his rape trail, which should start on May 24, 2023.
© Muhamadou BITTAYE / AFP