The Week in Photos: An Earthquake in Taiwan and an Election Protest in Senegal

Pacific Standard Staff
February 10, 2018
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard’s daily photo feature.
A man carries a placard demanding election rights during a demonstration by opposition parties for free and transparent elections on February 9th, 2018, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's presidential elections will be held in 2019.
Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. It has been 10,316 days since the Berlin Wall officially fell, the same number of days that it stood between 1961 and 1989.
Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. It has been 10,316 days since the Berlin Wall officially fell, the same number of days that it stood between 1961 and 1989.

(Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea. Guinean opposition leaders denounced the West African country's long-delayed local elections as fraudulent, citing vote rigging in polling stations across the country.
Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea. Guinean opposition leaders denounced the West African country’s long-delayed local elections as fraudulent, citing vote rigging in polling stations across the country.

(Photo: Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images)

Rescue workers stand guard in front of a cordon as the Yun Tsui apartment building leans to one side after an overnight earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on February 7th, 2018.
Rescue workers stand guard in front of a cordon as the Yun Tsui apartment building leans to one side after an overnight earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on February 7th, 2018.

(Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images)

Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018. During the harvest festival, native peasant farmers from different Bolivian highlands communities dance in the streets of Oruro giving thanks to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for the abundant crops.
Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018. During the harvest festival, native peasant farmers from different Bolivian highlands communities dance in the streets of Oruro giving thanks to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for the abundant crops.

(Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP/Getty Images)

A man carries a placard demanding election rights during a demonstration by opposition parties for free and transparent elections on February 9th, 2018, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's presidential elections will be held in 2019.
A man carries a placard demanding election rights during a demonstration by opposition parties for free and transparent elections on February 9th, 2018, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegal’s presidential elections will be held in 2019.

(Photo: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images)

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