Week in pictures: From Newroz celebrations to Brazil protests

in #photography7 years ago

A photo round-up of some of last week's events, including a car bomb blast in Somalia and protests in France and Spain.

Iraqi Kurds carry fire torches up a mountain, as they celebrate Newroz, a festival marking the beginning of spring and the vernal equinox.

Collected by: AL JAZEERA

Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/week-pictures-newroz-celebrations-brazil-protests-180322214253106.html

A French railway worker holds a poster among flares during a demonstration in Paris.

Thousands gather in front the Municipal Theater in downtown Rio de Janeiro, during a protest against the death of Councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was killed by two unidentified attackers in the Brazilian city

Somalis stand outside a destroyed building after a car bomb hit an area in Mogadishu, Somalia

The newly released Dapchi schoolgirls in Jumbam village, Yobe State, Nigeria. Nearly all of the 110 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria last month have been released by the armed group, according to the government.

Dieudonne Sabwa, 4, an internally displaced and severely acutely malnourished child waits to receive medical attention at the Tshiamala general referral hospital of Mwene Ditu in Kasai Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo

People attend a gathering to protest against the death of a Senegalese street hawker in central Madrid, Spain.

Moshe Haelion, a 93-year-old Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, takes part in a memorial marking the 75th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz.

Thousands march during a protest in Madrid, demanding the right to have a fair pension guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution and also against the Public Security Law also known as the 'Gag Law'

A girl poses for a photo during a rally in Athens, Greece, against the EU-Turkey deal to block the flow of refugees to Europe.

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