Topshots of the Week (11-17 March, 2023)

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (11-17 March, 2023).


AFP photo by Marco Longari - Mauritania

Husseinu, 20, from Dakar, Senegal, working at a construction site in the outskirts of Nouakchott, poses for a portrait on March 14, 2023.
© Marco Longari / AFP

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Carnegie Mellon Team Awarded ARPA-H Contract to Transform Care During Labor and Childbirth

Carnegie Mellon University is leading a multi-university team that has secured an award of up to $39.3 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop a wearable monitoring system to better identify fetal distress and its cause, enabling a safer labor and delivery experience for mothers and babies. The system, called OMEGA, or Optical, Mechanical, and Electrical Global Assessment of fetal hypoxia, aims to replace 50-year old, indirect, unreliable fetal heart ra...