CITATION YEAR: 2015
CITATION NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
CITATION RECIPIENT: Jerome Delay
CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Associated Press
CITATION HONORED WORK: “Burundi Unrest”
This series chronicles the political unrest in the African nation of Burundi. Men duck for cover as shots are fired in Bujumbura, Burundi, Monday, May 4, 2015. Anti-government demonstrations resumed in Burundi's capital after a weekend pause as thousands continue to protest the president's decision to seek a third term.
Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party's Imbonerakure youth militia, pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators after he came out of hiding in a sewer in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015. Niyonzima fled from his house into the sewer under a hail of stones thrown by a mob protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office.
Demonstrators sing the national anthem in front of a line of riot police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Friday May 1, 2015.
Demonstrators corner a suspected member of the ruling party's Imbonerakure youth militia at his home in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015.
Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party's Imbonerakure youth militia, is restrained as a mob gathers around his house, as protests continue against President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015.
A demonstrator seriously wounded by live ammunition waits for treatment in a small clinic in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Monday May 4, 2015.
Demonstrators topple a burnt out car in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi.
A protester lays dead after being shot in the Kinama district of Bujumbura, Burundi.
People set up a barricade in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi.
Demonstrators face off with police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi
Soldiers lift a wounded suspected Imbonerakure militiaman who was attacked by demonstrators protesting against President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office.
Jafeh Hakizimana shows his wounds. Hakizimana is one of three wounded during an attack of his village by Imbonerakure pro-government militias.