24 hours in pictures, 19 March 2026

· Citizen

Syrian Kurds carry the flame to mark the Nowruz holiday, the Kurdish spring festival, in the village of Tel Mozan in the countryside of Qamishli, northeastern Syria, on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) Muslims board atop a bus while returning to their hometowns ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Lahore on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP) Visitors visit the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Orlando West, 19 March 2026. The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) has announced a significant upgrade to the site, scheduled to be completed for the 50th Anniversary of the 1976 Student Uprising this June. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen Hindu devotees celebrate the ‘Pahchare Chariot Festival’ in Kathmandu on March 19, 2026. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) Majesticks GC’s English player Lee Westwood watches a drive from the 1st tee on the first day of the LIV Golf South Africa tournament at The Club in Steyn City on March 19, 2026. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP) Israeli security personnel secure an area around a rocket partly buried in a field in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights bordering Lebanon, on March 19, 2026. The United States and Israel began the war on February 28, 2026, by attacking Iran and killing its supreme leader. Iran retaliated with strikes against Israel and US allies and interests across the Gulf and Iraq, drawing the whole region into war. Lebanon was drawn into the conflict on March 2 when Hezbollah militants launched rockets at Israel after the killing of the Iranian supreme leader. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) Farmers take part in a protest demanding a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops and the exclusion of agricultural imports from the proposed India-US free trade agreement in New Delhi on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) People gather to shop ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Bengaluru on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP) An elderly man walks in a street in Havana on March 19, 2026. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) A general view of Total’s market in Brazzaville on March 19, 2026. Congo-Brazzaville’s 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected with nearly 95 percent of the vote, according to provisional results announced on Tuesday.Sunday’s election in the oil-rich central African country extends Sassou Nguesso’s cumulative 42 years in power for another five years.He won a fifth term with “94.8 percent” of the vote, Interior Minister Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou said on national television. (Photo by Daniel BELOUMOU OLOMO / AFP) A woman wearing a traditional Chinese costume poses for a picture in front of blooming peach trees at a park in Beijing on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP) Denmark’s King Frederik X and Queen Mary inspect a lobster during a trip onboard an Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) vessel to view the kelp conservation forest at the Alum Cliffs Marine Reserve in Hobart on March 19, 2026. (Photo by ROB BLAKERS / POOL / AFP)

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