Spot News, 1st prize
Walter Astrada
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
23 January, 2008
A man stands beside a vehicle set ablaze after police disrupted a mass funeral service for victims of ethnic violence. The ethnic violence that erupted in Kenya following disputed elections in December 2007 carried on until February. Much of the fighting was between members of the Kikuyu tribe, supporters of incumbent president Mwai Kibaki, and the Luo tribe, supporters of opposition candidate Raila Odinga.
Walter Astrada
Walter Astrada was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his career as a staff photographer at the local La Nacion newspaper. After a formative trip through South A...
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