The Week in Photos: From Welcoming Back Loved Ones in Sudan to the Winter Olympics in South Korea

Pacific Standard Staff
February 24, 2018
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard’s daily photo feature.
An Afghan man and children play with a kite on a rooftop overlooking Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, on February 23rd, 2018.
People wait outside the Kobar prison in Khartoum, Sudan, on February 18th, 2018, to welcome their loved ones after the government released dozens of opposition activists who were arrested last month when authorities cracked down on protests against rising food prices.
People wait outside the Kobar prison in Khartoum, Sudan, on February 18th, 2018, to welcome their loved ones after the government released dozens of opposition activists who were arrested last month when authorities cracked down on protests against rising food prices.

(Photo: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP/Getty Images)

Greenpeace activists hold a poster reading
Greenpeace activists hold a poster reading “We Have the Right to Clean Air” as they stage an action against diesel exhaust on February 19th, 2018, in Stuttgart, Germany. A verdict of Germany’s Federal Administrative Court is expected on February 22nd, ruling whether cities with high nitrogen oxide pollution could be allowed to ban diesel cars.

(Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/AFP/Getty Images)

People visit the exhibition
People visit the exhibition “Haneen, a Collective Work of Lebanese and Syrian Artists on the Impact of War on Childhood,” in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on February 20th, 2018. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the exhibition, which underlines how children experience war through works inspired by poetry by Syrian refugee children.

(Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

A person in a cow costume walks near farmers in their tractors, which block Gustave-Flaubert Bridge in Rouen, France, during a demonstration on February 21st, 2018, to protest against the trade deal negotiations in Brussels between Mercosur and the European Union. The negotiations include a revision of the map of disadvantaged areas through which certain communes receive aid.
A person in a cow costume walks near farmers in their tractors, which block Gustave-Flaubert Bridge in Rouen, France, during a demonstration on February 21st, 2018, to protest against the trade deal negotiations in Brussels between Mercosur and the European Union. The negotiations include a revision of the map of disadvantaged areas through which certain communes receive aid. 

(Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images)

Franziska Preuss of Germany shoots during the women's biathlon 4x6-kilometer relay on day 13 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Alpensia Biathlon Centre on February 22nd, 2018, in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.
Franziska Preuss of Germany shoots during the women’s biathlon 4×6-kilometer relay on day 13 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Alpensia Biathlon Centre on February 22nd, 2018, in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. 

(Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images)

An Afghan man and children play with a kite on a rooftop overlooking Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, on February 23rd, 2018.
An Afghan man and children play with a kite on a rooftop overlooking Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, on February 23rd, 2018.

(Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images)

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