Chiba, who has worked at AFP for over a decade and is based in Nairobi, won the top prize at the 2020 World Press Photo awards and was recently named The Guardian's "Agency Photographer of the Year 2021".

The training was held both online and on-site at a Nairobi hotel on February 7 and 8, under the guidance of four AFP journalists spread across Nairobi, Lagos, and Paris.

The free course, called Digital Investigation Techniques, teaches reporters and journalism students the tools and skills to verify online information while protecting themselves and their sources. 

The bite-sized modules cover fact-checking basics and advanced methods, from verifying images and videos to finding witnesses on social media. 

The project, co-ordinated by Charles University, also aims to boost public media literacy in the region and develop artificial intelligence tools to detect misinformation.

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This 24-minute documentary was co-produced in 2021 by production company FACTSTORY, which is a subsidiary of AFP, Arte/France 24 and with the support of CNC. It was written by Yann Ollivier, Pierre-Olivier François and Moïse Gomis.

The suspect, named as Bai L., is accused of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder, including the 2004 killing of an AFP journalist.

Olivier Morin recently spent time with surfers on the beaches of Norway’s Lofoten Islands.

Above the Arctic Circle, men and women were taking surf lessons in snowstorms on Unstad Beach, with a ir temperatures dropping to around 13 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit).

As day turned to night, some surfers stayed behind to witness the northern lights, with a few even venturing to paddleboard under the bright night skies.

Morin photographed several days of surfing, capturing these beautiful scenes of sunshine, snowfall, surfing, sunsets, and the aurora borealis.

Kirill Kudryavtsev, an AFP photographer based in Moscow, won an Excellence Award in the “Space on Earth” category for his photo of a women walking under snowfall in front of a Soyuz rocket installed as a monument in Baikonur city, near the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on December 05, 2021.

Brendan Smialowski won “Photographer of the Year” and “Political Photo of the Year” in the Top Honors category. He won the political photo prize for this image of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before a meeting in Geneva on 16 June 2021.