Guinea-Bissau
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In February, Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalist Marco Vernaschi won first place in the World Press Photo Contest for General News in the Stories category for his work on narco-trafficking in...
Marco Vernaschi has won "Picture of the Year" and 1st prize in "Picture Story of the Year" in the Photographers Giving Back (PGB) Photo Award contest.
The winners of the 2010 World Press Photo Contest were announced February 12 in Amsterdam.
Marco Vernaschi has been named a finalist for the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in Photojournalism for his 2009 work on cocaine trafficking in West Africa.
A frantic voice came over the radio: a blast had just destroyed Guinea-Bissau's military headquarters.
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West Africa, a region that has barely begun to heal from a decade of civil wars, is once again under attack.
Pulitzer Center supported journalist Marco Vernaschi has been awarded the top prize in the lens culture International Exposure Awa
Marco Vernaschi's photography, "West Africa's New Achilles' Heel" showcased in Newsweek Japan.
Since 2007, Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony and one of the poorest nations in the world, has become the new hub for cocaine trafficking in Africa.
Standing in the only operating room in the only medical hospital in all of Guinea-Bissau, Marco Vernaschi watched a nurse take an unsterile needle out of her pocket and, without anesthetic, suture