Selection of the AFP editorial staff of March 23, 2022

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Rebroadcast of several reports, approaches and exclusive articles published during the week and considered to be particularly interesting and original.

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico:

Between bullets, the distressing daily life of Mexican journalists

It's Monday and Maria is ready to report in Aguascalientes, Mexico, but upon death threat, this journalist must perform a ritual before leaving home: ask the authorities to monitor her steps and hand over the itinerary to her escorts.

By Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS

(Mexico USA EU press rights crime media politics corruption, Special Report, 1,030 words)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

KIEV:

“Life is beautiful”, or tries to be, in a psychiatric hospital in Kiev

Sometimes, when the war causes the walls of her psychiatric clinic in northwest Kiev to stagger, Oksana hides to cry. Afterwards, this nurse recovers herself, forces herself to smile and resumes her work: to assure the inmates that in Ukraine “everything is going well”.

By Emmanuel DUPARCQ

(Ukraine Russia health conflict, Feature, 730 words)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

QUITO:

He broke the silence! : Ecuadorian biologists capture the song of a toad considered mute for a century

A very sharp sound in the forest caught the attention of Ecuadorian biologist Jorge Brito. He thought it was the cri-cri of a cricket, but he found a kind of toad with a prominent nose that since its discovery, a century ago, science believed to be dumb.

By Paola LOPEZ

(Ecuador animals environment science, Report, 700 words)

PHOTO, VIDEO, INFOGRAPHIC

KENT, USA:

A movement defends eco-responsible burials with human compost in the US

A woodpecker perches on a branch while Cindy Armstrong contemplates a plot of land that used to be her son. He smiles at the thought that the young man who died of cancer wanted his body to be transformed into compost to allow a new life to flourish.

By Glenn CHAPMAN

(US environment computer economy death society companies, Report, 700 words)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

Port of Aden reflects the wounds of Yemen's protracted war

Houses with bullet holes, buildings turned to rubble and countless portraits of “martyrs”: after seven years of civil war in Yemen, the interim capital of Aden displays the wounds of a conflict that shows no sign of ending.

Por Shatha YAISH

(Yemen conflict rebellion aid famine economy armed forces, Feature, 780 words)

PHOTOS, INFOGRAPHICS

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