Current affairs and news category, winner: Alessio Romenzi. Fighters of the Libyan forces affiliated with the Tripoli government walk around the giant chandelier of the conference room in the Ouagadougou conference centre. The offensive to liberate Sirte, self-proclaimed capital of Islamic State in Libya, took seven months of fighting and about 500 American airstrikes, killing hundreds of soldiers and injuring more than 3,000 in the Libyan army. (Photo by Alessio Romenzi/Sony World Photography Awards)
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