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Topshots of the Week (21-28 April, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (21-28 April, 2023).
An indigenous woman from the Huni Kuin tribe taking part in the Terra Livre Indigenous camp, focused on bringing awareness for indigenous rights and land issues and promoting their culture, protests outside the Congress building in Brasilia on April 24, 2023. The camp runs until April 29, 2023.
© Carl DE SOUZA / AFP
A BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher fires towards Russian positions on the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on April 23, 2023, amid the Russian invasion on Ukraine.
© Sergey SHESTAK / AFP
A photographer takes pictures of the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, as it glows on the horizon over waters of Lake Ellesmere on the outskirts of Christchurch on April 24, 2023.
© Sanka VIDANAGAMA / AFP
A soldier carries a child as people evacuated from Sudan disembark from an aircraft at a military airport in Amman on April 24, 2023. Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan as deadly fighting raged into a second week between forces loyal to two rival generals.
© Khalil MAZRAAW / AFP
A child tries to catch a gift as Muslims gather on the first day of Eid al-Fitr to celebrate the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan outside the Dome of the Rock at the Aqsa mosques complex in the Old city of Jerusalem on April 21, 2023.
© Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP
A Kyrgiz hunter spins a lure for a falcon during the Salburun hunting festival in the village of Bokonbayevo, near Lake Issyk-Kul, some 300 km from Bishkek, on April 23, 2023.
© Vyacheslav OSELEDKO / AFP
Digged holes are seen after exhuming bodies at the mass-grave site in Shakahola, outside the coastal town of Malindi, on April 25, 2023. Kenyan investigators unearthed another 16 bodies on Tuesday in a forest where a cult was believed to be practising mass starvation, bringing the number of victims so far to 89 including children. There are fears more corpses could be found in Shakahola forest where cult leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge had allegedly been telling his followers that starvation was the only path to God.
© Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
A demonstrator bashes a pan during a pan-banging protest in Toulouse, southwestern France on April 24, 2023, as part of a nationwide protest against French President Emmanuel Macron one year anniversary's reelection.
© Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP