Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Smoke billows behind the Sacre Coeur Basilica as a “major fire” broke out in the nearby 17th arrondissement, in the north of Paris, firefighters announced, without specifying the affected buildings, on April 7, 2025. (Photo by Idhir BAHA / AFP)
The Vaal Dam full to capacity flooding the low level areas near its banks at Manten Marina, in the Free State, 8 April 2025. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CITIZENA wounded Ukrainian soldier looks on after receiving medical attention at a stabilization point near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, 07 April 2025, amid the Russian invasion. These Ukrainian Army facilities are the first point of care for wounded soldiers before they are transferred to hospitals. Picture: EPA-EFE/SERGEY SHESTAKProtesters march, 8 April 2025, through the streets of Johannesburg, against gender based violence in South Africa. Marches took place across South Africa today after a seven-year-old girl was raped at a school in Matatiele in the Eastern Cape province. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenAn indigenous man participates in the Free Land Camp in Brasa, Brazil, 07 April 2025. Thousands of indigenous people from different ethnic groups will gather in the capital of Brazil for the largest indigenous meeting in the country, under the slogan: ‘The Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) We Are All: In Defense of the Constitution and Life’. Picture: EPA-EFE/Andre BorgesThis handout photo taken from the Facebook account of Channel Nicor of C.N. Photography on April 8, 2025 shows Mount Kanlaon erupting as seen from a village in La Castellana, Negros Occidental Province, central Philippines. A volcano in the central Philippines erupted early in the morning on April 8 sending a plume of ash 4,000 metres (2.5 miles) into the sky and prompting calls for local school cancellations. (Photo by Handout / Channel Nicor of C.N. Photography Facebook account / AFP)Activists of the Markazi Muslim League (MML) party holding placards take part in a protest during a rally to express their solidarity with the Palestinians, in Lahore on April 7, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)A tourist carries a surf board at Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia, 08 April 2025. The Indonesian Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded the occupancy rate of rooms in star hotels decreased from 48.38 percent in January 2025 to 47.21 percent in February 2025, a decrease of 1.17 points according to data released on 08 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/MADE NAGIYoung boys apply mud to cool themselves near a makeshift pool along the banks of the Yamuna River on a hot summer day in New Delhi on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)A general view of the Fateh Sagar Lake during sunset in Udaipur in India’s desert state of Rajasthan on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)A vendor rides with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders after loading from a supply truck in Kolkata, India on April 8, 2025. The price of LPG gas used predominantly for cooking has been hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder (Euro 0.53). The domestic LPG price hike in India is primarily attributed to rising international LPG costs and financial pressures on Indian oil companies. The hike was justified by the Indian government as necessary to offset mounting losses caused by selling LPG below cost. Picture: Matrix Images/Rupak De ChowdhuriFrecce Tricolori and Red Arrows aerobatic units perform in the sky of Rome during the state visit of Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Italy, on April 8, 2025. King Charles III on Monday began a four-day state visit to Italy in which he will address parliament and tour the Colosseum. The trip comes 10 days after Charles, 76, was briefly admitted to hospital after experiencing side effects from his cancer treatment. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)A man on the beach watches sand dredging take place at Surfers Paradise Beach on the Gold Coast, Australia, 08 April 2025. Sand dredging involves removing sand and sediments from the bottom of rivers, lakes, and other water bodies using special equipment, typically for beach nourishment, land reclamation, or construction projects. Picture: EPA-EFE/JASON O’BRIENAfghan refugees due for deportation to Afghanistan arrive at a holding centre to undergo biometric verification by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on April 8, 2025. Thousands of Afghans have crossed the border from Pakistan in recent days, the United Nations and Taliban officials said, as Islamabad ramped up pressure for them to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan last month set an early April deadline for some 800,000 Afghans carrying Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) issued by Pakistan authorities to leave the country, another phase in Islamabad’s campaign in recent years to repatriate Afghans. (Photo by Abdul BASIT / AFP)
