A collection of captivating photographs capturing New Year's traditions, environmental concerns, and everyday life from across the globe.
Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. Members of the ‘Ekum Baba’ light up the streets of Banjul ahead of the annual hunting festival in Banjul on January 1, 2025. Rooted in tradition, this vibrant celebration marks the New Year with music, dancing, and a fierce yet friendly competition between hunting societies for the title of the best display of animal heads, masks and costumes.
(Photo by MUHAMADOU BITTAYE / AFP)(Photo by Mariana SUAREZ / AFP) Swimmers take a dip in the Kromme Rijn near Amelisweerd in Bunnink, the Netherlands, 01 January 2025. The New Year’s dive was organized by an action group called Amelisweerd Niet Geasfalteerd (literal translation: Do not asphalt Amelisweerd) and was a protest against the planned widening of the highway A27 that would result in cutting down part of the forrest of Amelisweerd.Birds fly around a crane at a construction site engulfed in smog, during sunset in Mumbai, India, 01 January 2025. Mumbai is experiencing severe air pollution as a result of ongoing construction work, including metro projects, building construction, bridges, road maintenance, and vehicular traffic as well as climate change, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) falling into the ‘poor’ category, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).Aymara Indigenous people celebrate the “Roscasiri” in the Pomata District, one of seven districts of the Chucuito Province in the Puno Region, southern Peru, on January 1, 2025. This ancient Aymara event, in which people decorate themselves with breads and fruits that represent abundance for the new year, celebrates the change of local authorities.A motorist navigates a flooded Barry Hertzog Avenue near Melville, 1 January 2025, after persistent rains on New Year’s Day.A general view of beachgoers enjoying the water on a hot summer’s day at Muizenberg Beach on January 01, 2025 in Cape Town, South Afric
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