Pictures played a huge part in our news coverage over the last one year. Whiles every story comes with a picture, there are times the team served hosts of pictures surrounding an article.
2016 Review: [Top 10 photo albums] AU, Miss World, Castro & Madiba, 'Pharoah' et. al.
Our photo galleries came in handy. From our official flickr handle, ‘Africanews Channel’ we uploaded close to 700 photos – with the view to tell stories more vividly.
From the political to the economic, the diplomatic to the sporty, the fashion through to pageantry. The human interest through to the protest and human rights bit not forgetting the cultural and death relate pictures plus the outright bizarre.
We present our top 10 photo albums over the last year. Yours is to flip, scroll down and keep flipping. The photo albums are as follows in no particular order.
1. ‘Pharoah’: Egypt’s strongest man
2. Kenyan Prez gives his seat to a student
3. Kenya burns illegal firearms
4. Ghana votes December 7, 2016
5. Pictures of Historic AU passport
6. Miss World 2016
7. Ivory Coast Grand Bassam Attack
8. Fidel Castro and Africa
9. Mandela Burial 3 years on – December 2013
10. African leaders arrive in Kigali for AU summit
Now its time to flip – scroll – flip
Ivory Coast Grand Bassam Attack
‘Pharoah’: Egypt’s strongest man
Kenyan Prez gives his seat to a student
Pictures of Historic AU passport
African leaders arrive in Kigali for AU summit
Kenya burns illegal firearms
Fidel Castro and Africa
Mandela Burial 3 years on – December 2013
Ghana votes December 7, 2016
Miss World 2016
Photos courtesy Reuters Pictures
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