AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said.

The attack happened at around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) on the outskirts of the town close to Bakhmut, the epicentre of the fighting in eastern Ukraine for several months.

Natalia Sawka and Maja Czarnecka, from the AFP Warsaw bureau, have received an award for their fact-checking work.

Natalia and Maja received their prize, along with other Polish fact-checking organizations, from the Press Club Polska at a ceremony at the Bellotto Hotel in Warsaw on April 26.

On April 20, 2023 the exhibition "Quoi de neuf à l'Est" ("What's new in the East") was launched at cultural centre CWB in Kinshasa. The exhibition shows the work of Alexis Huguet, AFP photojournalist based in Kinshasa, which focuses on the wave of violence in eastern DRC from 2018 to 2023.

Karl Malakunas’s award-winning documentary on land defenders in the Philippines, Delikado, will have its European broadcast premiere on Arte this Saturday, April 22, to coincide with Earth Day. Broadcast times are 11.15am in France and 12.05pm in Germany. Delikado will be also available online at arte.tv

The International Journalism Festival 2023 took place from 19 to 23 April in Perugia, Italy.

AFP Global News Director Phil Chetwynd attended two conferences:

• "Climate journalism that works: what newsrooms need to know to have an impact" on Thursday, April 20, at 4pm (CET).

AFP is offering a second collection of NFTs from its photographic archives for sale, in association with the Web3 art platform laCollection.io. These digital and unique images were selected by the public during the photo exhibition "Discovering Past Icons" organised by the Agency last autumn.

In autumn 2022, AFP closed its exhibition "Discovering Past Icons" with an auction of the 200 fine art prints displayed and its first NFT collection with three iconic digital editions.

The third successive BBC's Trust in News global webcast is back this year and will take place in London and Delhi on Thursday, March 30, 2023.

The conference will include a panel with AFP Global News Director Phil Chetwynd at 11.45 am CET on the topic of "Russia & Ukraine – bearing witness. Investigators show how the use of open-source and verification tools help reveal the truth".

From March 8 to March 31, AFP will exhibit a selection of 25 photos showing its coverage of the country over the past 35 years at the Alliance française in Johannesburg.

The aim of the exhibition is to show how AFP has broadened its coverage, from one mainly focused on politics and breaking news during the terrible years of Apartheid, to a wider one telling the story of a whole country, its way of life, its culture, its sports news, etc.