Bayeux (France) (AFP) – AFP photographer Mohammed Al-Shaikh and the BBC’s Lyse Doucet were among the winners at the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents announced on Saturday in Bayeux, northwestern France.Three of the seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, where a devastating civil war has raged for the past three and a half years.The international jury, chaired by US veteran foreign correspondent Jon Randal, awarded the first prize in the photo category to AFP’s Al-Shaikh for a series of striking images covering violent demonstrations in Bahrain, which began in 2011.In the written press category, The …read more
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