Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
In this aerial view, fog rolls by the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California on May 20, 2026. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)A Pothole along Delmas Road in Mpumalanga, 20 May 2026, which poses serious safety risks and severe traffic delays for motorists. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The CitizenHonduran sea nettles are displayed at the Aquarium of the Pacific’s new “Jelly Dreamscapes” exhibit in Long Beach, California, on May 20, 2026, ahead of the May 23 opening to the public. The boneless invertebrates which lack backbones, brains and gills are made up of about 95% water and move across the oceans using water currents. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)Picture released by adhoc news agency showing people holding portraits of those who disappeared during the last dictatorship in Uruguay as they take part in the Marcha del Silencio (March of Silence) in Montevideo on May 20, 2026. (Photo by Javier Calvelo / adhoc / AFP)Attendees watch the controlled demolition by explosion of the two 100-metre-high chimneys of a former refinery in Collombey-Muraz, south-western Switzerland on May 21, 2026. Constructed by Eni, the Collombey refinery operated from 1963 to late March 2015, closing after more than 50 years under Tamoil ownership. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)This general view of the Sagrada Familia basilica taken on May 21, 2026 shows the newly revealed 17-meter-high and 13.5-meter-wide cross that completes the temple’s main Tower of Jesus Christ in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia basilica’s central tower’s cross crowns the world’s tallest church at 172.5 meters, a temple conceived by Antoni Gaudi more than 140 years ago. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)Displaced Palestinians receive food from a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 21, 2026. Since the terms of a US-brokered ceasefire deal came into effect on October 10, Israel remains in control of nearly half of the Gaza Strip, including all its border areas. Nearly two million people in Gaza are living in makeshift shelters, and the humanitarian situation remains dire, according to aid agencies. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)A person sits under an umbrella in Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City on May 20, 2026. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)Former SAPS Special Task Force, Matipandile Sotheni appears at Brakpan Magistrate’s Court for bail application in the murder case of Marius van der Merwe on May 21, 2026 in Brakpan, South Africa. It is alleged that Sotheni was the gunman who fatally shot Marius van der Merwe, who testified at Madlanga Commission as Witness D, outside his Brakpan home in December. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)Natasha van der Merwe (Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe’s sister) is seen at Brakpan Magistrate’s Court during the bail application of the suspect on May 21, 2026 in Brakpan, South Africa. It is alleged that former SAPS Officer Matipandile Sotheni was the gunman who fatally shot Marius van der Merwe, after he testified at Madlanga Commission as Witness D, outside his Brakpan home in December. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)Herders off load sheep from a truck at the Anyama Livestock Park, on May 21, 2026 where livestock are sold ahead of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)Friends of St John’s College Rowing Club members (from left) Jeanne Stravino, Ang Isbister, Jen Band and Yvonne Gwamanada pose for a photograph at Killarney Golf Club in Johannesburg, 21 May 2026, before the Golf Day in support of the Rowing Club. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CitizenAn Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldier washes his hands at the entrance at the Bunia airport in Bunia on May 21, 2026. According to the WHO, the latest outbreak in the DRC, the 17th to hit the vast central African country of more than 100 million people, is already suspected of having caused 139 deaths out of nearly 600 probable cases. Many of the cases have been recorded in the epidemic’s epicentre in the DRC’s northeastern Ituri province, many in hard-to-access areas plagued by the Congolese east’s litany of armed groups. (Photo by Seros MUYISA / AFP)Newly commissioned officers toss their caps into the air as a flyover goes by during the 145th United States Coast Guard Commencement Exercise in New London, Connecticut on May 20, 2026. US President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP)
