Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) attend to a collapsed building in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, 2 February 2026. Three people were injured and taken to a nearby hospital when a transformer reportedly exploded at around 5am in a storage room adjacent to the building. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenUgandan police officers attempt to arrest an opposition supporter taking part in a demonstration against alleged election fraud and in support of opposition figures in Kampala, on February 2, 2026.Fugitive Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine went into hiding after a January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was re-elected for a seventh term, a result the opposition leader denounced as “blatant theft”. (Photo by Badru Katumba / AFP)Tyla, winner of the Best African Music Performance for “PUSH 2 START”, poses in the press room during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Leon Bennett/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/AFP (Photo by Leon Bennett / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)Mourners pay tribute to well known MultiChoice sercurity guard and cyclist David Sejobe, 2 February 2026, outside the MultiChoice offices in Randburg. Forty-nine-year-old Sejobe was fatally struck by a car on his commute to work on Friday. He was beloved for his daily jovial and encouraging antics outside the MultiChoice building on Bram Fischer Drive, and for a video that went viral of him explaining how he cycles to work everyday from Orange Farm to Randburg. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenAn aerial view of Nallihan Bird Paradise, one of the important wetlands, as the water level has dropped due to drought in Ankara, Turkiye, on February 1, 2026. Ecosystems dependent on water have been negatively affected by low rainfall throughout the year. Water-dependent habitats in the area have shrunk. (Photo by Muhammed Abdullah Kurtar/Anadolu via Getty Images)A picture of US President Donald Trump is set on fire by protesters during an anti-USA demonstration in front of the US consulate in Istanbul on February 1, 2026. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)A 100-meter-long cargo ship flying the Comoros flag runs aground near Kisirkaya in the Sariyer district of Istanbul, Turkiye, on February 02, 2026. (Photo by Arife Karakum/Anadolu via Getty Images)Tibetans mark their ballot papers before casting their vote during the elections for the Tibetan government-in-exile at a polling booth, in Dharamshala, India on February 01, 2026. The polls, organised by the Central Tibetan Administration, take place in the town that serves as the headquarters of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan exile government. (Photo by Yousuf Sarfaraz/Anadolu via Getty Images)Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her niece Tulip Siddiq were sentenced in the Purbachal Plot Allocation Case in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 2, 2026. Special Judge Court-4 in Dhaka delivered verdicts in two cases involving the alleged misallocation of government plots under the Purbachal New Town project. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana, received a four-year sentence. Thirty-five others were given five-year sentences, and Khorshed Alam received two years. The cases involve allegations of abuse of power and irregularities in the allocation of 20 kathas of government land in the project. (Photo by Abdul Goni/Anadolu via Getty Images)An international pilot performs stunts in fire explosions during the celebration of the 15th Ilopango 2026 Air Show at the air base of the municipality of Ilopango, in San Salvador, El Salvador on February 01, 2026. The Ilopango Air Show brings together thousands of tourists to see acrobatics by national and international pilots in their planes alongside the Salvadoran Air Force (FAS). (Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images)Relatives mourn the death of the 3-year-old Palestinian baby Iyad Ahmed el-Rabayia, in Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 2, 2026. The Israeli forces bombed the tents of displaced Palestinians, violating the ceasefire in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis from the sea. The babyâs body was brought to Nasser Hospital for funeral procedures. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)A woman kisses a horse for a photo during the final match in the second day of play at The Chairman’s Cup at Nairobi Polo Club on February 1, 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya. Spectators, club members and players dress to impress as they attended The Chairman’s Cup, the final two day tournament of the Polo season, at Nairobi Polo Club. The organisers at the club say interest in the sport, and the culture around it, has been steadily increasing in recent years, with around one thousand visitors expected to attend the polo matches and after parties over course of the weekend. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)Media and tourists are seen at Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy, on February 02, 2026. Starting from February 02, Rome’s municipality will introduce a Ã2 ticket to access the Trevi Fountain as a measure to tackle overtourism. (Photo by Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images)Conservative party supporters wait for the arrival of Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride on their visit to the Barracuda Mediterranean Restaurant on February 02, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)DJ Warras murder second suspect Armindo Joaquim appears at Johannesburg Magistrates court, 2 February 2026. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The CitizenHigh-speed trains are seen at a train station on the first day of the annual Chunyun Spring Festival travel period, in Nanjing, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on February 2, 2026. (Photo by AFP)People enjoy the snow as winter storm Gianna, an unusually southern track of bomb cyclone brings over a foot of snow to the Carolinas as roads became unpassable and hindreds of flights are being cancelled in Charlotte, NC, United States on February 01, 2026 (Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)Worshippers participate in the traditional ceremony of Iemanja, the goddess of the sea in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion, at the Rio Vermelho neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on February 2, 2026. (Photo by Antonello VENERI / AFP)A firefighter works on a vehicle equipped with water pumps to extinguish a forest fire burning in the mountains of the rural area of Epuyen, in the Patagonian region of Chubut province, Argentina, on February 1, 2026. Argentina’s government on January 29, 2026, declared an emergency in Patagonia, where wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of forest since the start of the Southern Hemisphere summer. (Photo by Gonzalo KEOGAN / AFP)
