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Topshots of the Week (16-22 March 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from 16th to 22nd March 2024.
Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel approaches in waters some 16 nautical miles (29 kilometers) off west Aceh on March 21, 2024. Indonesian authorities rescued at least 69 Rohingya refugees who had been at sea for weeks and were taking them to shore on March 21 after their boat capsized a day earlier.
© Zahlul AKBAR / AFP
A man carries a plastic bucket across the cracked bed of a dried-up pond in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province on March 19, 2024. Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked dry earth of her garden in Vietnam's Mekong Delta -- the country's "rice bowl" agricultural heartland.A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Thuong's home of Ben Tre province, 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of business hub Ho Chi Minh City.
© Nhac NGUYEN / AFP
Baye Fall followers chant during a celebration as they return from the Great Mosque in Touba to the house of Sheik Ndiguel Fall, a local marabout, on March 20, 2024. The Baye Fall is a Senegalese Muslim Sect and a branch of the Mouride brotherhood, Senegal's largest Muslim brotherhood. The Baye Fall believe that physical labour, which can consist of farming, construction work and cooking, is an act of prayer and devotion. They are also well known for their colourful clothing dreadlocks and mass chanting.
© Marco LONGARI / AFP
Pupils stretch before a ballet class in Soweto near Johannesburg, on March 20, 2024. Jo-Anne Wyngaard, ballet instructor for Joburg Ballet, conducts classes for children of different ages, skill and social backgrounds in Alexandra, Soweto and in Johannesburg, in hopes of training a new generation of professional dancers to compete at international level.
© Olympia DE MAISMONT / AFP
A boy holds out an empty pot as he waits with other displaced Palestinians queueing for meals provided by a charity organisation ahead of the fast-breaking "iftar" meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
© Said KHATIB / AFP
Revellers daubed in colours take part in Lathmar Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, at Nandgaon in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on March 19, 2024.
© AFP
Mexico's Michel Muñoz celebrates his victory after competing in the Men's Single Sculls PR1 M1x final of the Americas Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 16, 2024.
© Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP
An effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin bathing in a bath of blood is seen at a rally in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, where voters lined up to cast their ballots in the Russia's presidential election on March 17, 2024.
© Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP