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Topshots of the Week (16-22 December 2023)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from the 16th of December to the 22th of December 2023.
A supporter of President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and leader of the Union of Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party, Felix Tshisekedi, and blows fire at a campaign rally at Sainte Therese in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on December 18, 2023. Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections scheduled for December 20, 2023 in the central African nation of about 100 million people.
© John WESSELS / AFP
An earthquake survivor holds a mobile phone at a makeshift shelter made of tarpaulin in Jishishan County in northwest China's Gansu province on December 20, 2023. Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on December 20, too scared to return to homes made dangerous by the disaster.
© Pedro PARDO / AFP
A fireball erupts after Israeli strike over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 20, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
© Said KHATIB / AFP
Members of Border Angels and migrants demonstrate at the US-Mexico border as part of International Migrants Day in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on December 18, 2023.
© Guillermo ARIAS / AFP
A man walks past a collapsed house in Dahejia in Jishishan County in northwest China's Gansu province on December 20, 2023. Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in aid tents on December 20 after overnight temperatures plunged well below zero, with the death toll rising to 131.
© Pedro PARDO / AFP
A man sits with children by a fire outside one of the tents housing Palestinians displaced by the conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 18, 2023.
© Mahmud HAMS / AFP
A resident is covered in frost while exercising outdoors during cold weather in Shenyang, in China’s northeast Liaoning province on December 20, 2023.
© STR / AFP
Residents and relatives carry belongings out of their burned out flat in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on December 20, 2023, a day after their multi-storey residential building was hit by shelling, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
© STR / AFP