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    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Ben Curtis
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 26-04-2005
    • Country Togo
    • Place Lome
    • Caption A soldier aims a kick to the head of a rioter suspected of looting. Faure Gnassingbe, the son of Africa's longest-reigning dictator Gnassingbe Eyadema, was elected president in April. According to the United Nations, up to 500 people were killed and 40,000 Togolese fled to neighboring countries in violence surrounding the elections. The military had installed Gnassingbe as president after his father's death in February, in a move described by the opposition and some other African leaders as a military coup. Under strong international pressure, Gnassingbe stepped down and called an election. Opposition members alleged the polls were rigged and organized protests. Within minutes of Gnassingbe being declared winner they rampaged through the streets of the capital Lome, burning barricades and clashing with security forces.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Tomás Munita
    • Nationality Chile
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 12-10-2005
    • Country Pakistan
    • Place Balakot
    • Caption Survivors wait for a helicopter to evacuate them from a field hospital, at the epicenter of the October 8 quake in the Kashmir region near the India-Pakistan border. Helicopters played a crucial relief role in inaccessible areas, but struggled to keep up with the demand. The earthquake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. Over 73,000 people in Pakistan were killed and around three million made homeless, with another 1,400 deaths in Indian-administered Kashmir. Many roads were so damaged by the quake that they were impassable for months. Accusations were leveled at both the Pakistani and the Indian governments for a disorganized early response to the disaster, and at Western nations for slowness in coming forward with financial aid. Eventually relief efforts did become more coordinated. International donors eventually pledged some US$ 5.4 billion towards recovery, and India and Pakistan cooperated in unprecendented ways in territory that the two nations had long held in dispute.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Michael Appleton
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication New York Daily News
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 01-09-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Caption A stranded Quintella Williams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside the superdome. Hurricane Katrina, the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, hit the US Gulf Coast on August 29 causing severe destruction across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Levees protecting New Orleans were breached, flooding 80 percent of the city. Rescue efforts were delayed and disorganized. One-fifth of the population remained trapped in the city without power. Some 25,000 people made their way to the city's Superdome, which with insufficient food and water and with no air-conditioning or working toilets became increasingly uninhabitable.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Scott Nelson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication World Picture Network
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 07-05-2005
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption Bystanders take cover from the blast and try to push unaffected cars away from the flames during a suicide car bombing. The car bomb, targeting a passing civilian contractor convoy, killed 22 people and wounded more than 35 in a crowded Tahrir Square. January elections in Iraq did not stem countrywide insurgency, which became increasingly sectarian. Predominantly Sunni insurgents targeted Shiite and Kurdish civilians in suicide bombings.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Vincent Laforet
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The New York Times
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 03-09-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Caption Smoke rises over the downtown area after Hurricane Katrina. When Katrina made landfall on August 29 it took 1,836 lives and caused over US$ 75 billion damage, making it the deadliest hurricane for nearly a century and the most expensive natural disaster in US history. More than 1.5 million people were displaced in what became an humanitarian crisis on a scale not experienced in the US since the Great Depression in 1930s. Katrina also caused a political storm, as the chaotic reaction to the catastrophe highlighted inadequate planning and an absence of cooperation between local, state and federal bodies. President Bush, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security, Louisiana's governor, as well as the New Orleans police force and mayor's office all came in for considerable criticism.
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