Inside AFP
Topshots of the Week (04 - 10 May 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from 4th to 10th May 2024.
US singer and songwriter Taylor Alison Swift, also known as Taylor Swift (C), performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her The Eras Tour, in Nanterre, north-western France, on May 9, 2024.
© Julien DE ROSA / AFP
Locals move in boats following floodings due to heavy rains in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil on May 6, 2024. From top to bottom, rescuers scour buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding killed at least 78 people in the southern state, with dozens missing and some 115,000 forced to leave their homes.
© Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP
Displaced Palestinians who left with their belongings from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following an evacuation order by the Israeli army, arrive to Khan Yunis on May 6, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.
© AFP
A young man looks as a woman takes a horse ride along a beach in Banjul on May 4, 2024.
© John WESSELS / AFP
US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
© Angela WEISS / AFP
Fireworks go off as the French 19th-century three-masted barque Belem (C) arrives at the Vieux-Port (Old Port) during the Olympic Flame arrival ceremony, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Marseille, southeastern France, on May 8, 2024. The transfer of the flame onshore from a 19th-century tall ship will mark the start of a 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) torch relay across mainland France and the country's far-flung overseas territories.
© Sylvain THOMAS / AFP
A woman wades through flood waters at an inundated residential area in Garissa, on May 9, 2024. Kenya is grappling with one of its worst floods in recent history, the latest in a string of weather catastrophes, following weeks of extreme rainfall scientists have linked to a changing climate. At least 257 people have been killed and more than 55,000 households have been displaced as murky waters submerge entire villages, destroy roads and inundate dams.
© Luis TATO / AFP
Performers walk with bicycles depicting the transportion of food and necessities for the battlefield during official celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Dien Bien Phu victory over French colonial forces in Dien Bien Phu city on May 7, 2024. War veterans, soldiers and dignitaries gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu on May 7 to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle that ultimately brought an end to the French empire in Indochina.
© Nhac NGUYEN / AFP