At the 20 December 2016 Meeting of AFP's Board of Directors, Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog presented a business development plan focusing on two priorities: video and corporate. AFP will also build up its range of live products in line with its objective of being, now more than ever, the real time news agency.

Journalism students across the continent will be able to enter the African Fact-Checking Awards next year, organisers announced late Thursday, as they named reporters from Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon as winners of the top fact-checking prizes this year.

Will Vassilopoulos, AFP stringer since 2011, has won the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the work of the best freelance video journalists.

Independent Afghan TV news station Tolo has won the 2016 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for its consistently fearless work reporting in one of the world's most dangerous countries.

Agence France-Presse and Hong Kong University journalism school on Friday signed an extensive partnership agreement that includes internships, joint editorial projects and the publication of the Agency’s ethics guidelines in Chinese

AFP-Services is proud to have been selected as the exclusive photo provider for coverage of the MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016 as well as the provider for video highlights for the International broadcast market.