Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe

Young men from the various villages around Nyamakate, a community in Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, play a game of Rural Youth League football. This was the final match of the youth league, which was created to give young people a positive outlet for their energy.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Mexico City, Mexico

Public water fountains at the Monument to the Revolution in downtown Mexico City are a source of relaxation and refreshment amid high temperatures. The monument’s fountains shoot water directly from the ground, allowing visitors to walk and play in the fountains.

Photo by Mar García

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Tourists and visitors to the Nishat Garden in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, enjoy its fountains. Domestic and international tourists flock to the garden on the banks of Dal Lake during spring and summer, when the plants are in bloom and the trees are green.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Mexico City, Mexico

With the temperature at 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mexico City, Claudia, 5, (left) Lupita, 6, and other visitors to Alameda Central, a downtown public park, refresh themselves by playing in a water fountain. Dozens of people also crowded around the fountain to be cooled off by the breeze from the water.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Tafara, a suburb east of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Tadiwa Hunzvi, 4, (right) and other children enjoy finding and playing with old tires. The kids race one another to see who can roll the tires the fastest.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Kampala, Uganda

Sarah Bukirwa (right) tries to block Irene Bukirwa from scoring a point at the Muteesa I Royal University interfaculty netball tournament held at their Kampala, Uganda campus. Irene’s team, made up of faculty members from the science, art and information technology school, defeated Sarah’s team from the business and management school by a score of 7-4. The two players aren’t related.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Harare, Zimbabwe

Divine Kaliofasi (left), 7, plays table football with bus drivers and conductors at the commuter park in the city center of Harare, Zimbabwe. Playing the game, locally known as “slug,” costs 25 cents in Zimbabwean bond coins. Many drivers and conductors play while they wait for passengers to board commuter buses.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Mexico City, Mexico

Siblings Bárbara, 7, and Javier, 9, take the teacup ride at a local fair set up for Day of the Holy Cross (Día de la Santa Cruz), on May 3 in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of central Mexico City. The brother and sister attend the celebrations every year.

Photo by Mar García

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jack Vega, 16, practices acrobatics with friends at the Parque Patricios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Every Sunday, Vega and his friends travel 5 kilometers (just over 3 miles) to this park to use the park’s equipment.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Mexico City, Mexico

Andrés Durán, 17, who has been playing chess for 13 years, plays a noncompetitive game of giant chess after participating in the First Juan José Arreola Chess Tournament at Centro Cultural Universitario in southern Mexico City. The tournament, named after a famous 20th-century author, took place on April 22, as a part of La Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa, a festival celebrating words and wordsmiths.

Photo by Mar García

Kibaya, Rubavu District, Rwanda

In Kibaya village in Rwanda’s Rubavu District, Denise Feza (center) plays a homemade game that involves jumping in the middle of a long rope wrapped around the hips of two friends. These children enjoy creating games to play in the afternoons, after they’ve helped their parents cultivate farmland.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

At the White City Stadium in Bulawayo, Nomqhele Sibanda, 9, gets her face painted during Zimbabwe’s 38th Independence Day celebration on April 18. Residents of the city’s suburbs came to participate in various activities and commemorate the first Independence Day following the November 2017 resignation of President Robert Mugabe.

Photo by Fortune Moyo

Mexico City, Mexico

Mariana Celestino González, 16, blows bubbles to attract customers in a public square in the Xochimilco delegation of southern Mexico City. Mariana prepares the mixture of liquid soap and water that she sells on weekends and holidays.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Bhaktapur, Nepal

Children in Bhaktapur, a city in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, play on an unfinished chariot that will house an idol of a Hindu god for Bisket Jatra, a local festival. Throughout the nine-day festival, which began on Tuesday, April 10, multiple chariots holding Hindu idols will be pulled around Bhaktapur, and many people will look on and pay their respects.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Uriel Magnano (left) and Gonzalo Olivera do wheelies during an event in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where young bike enthusiasts meet up, perform tricks and compete for prizes. This event, held every other Sunday, is organized by a Facebook group that connects bicyclists throughout the city.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Titanyen, Haiti

Willems Edouli (right) and other students play football during a break at their school, Mission de L’Espoir, in Titanyen, Haiti. Football is a popular sport in Haiti and is often played at schools.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Edwidge Ulysse (left), 19, and James St Ville, 18, compete in a pinge wrestling match in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. Pinge wrestling is a cultural event held during the Easter season for male competitors and in June for female competitors.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

In the town of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, Berveli Izobo (left), 4, and Eloge Kapenge, 7, play mangola, a critical-thinking game in the mancala family. Berveli and Eloge, who also enjoy watching grown-ups play the game, are learning to think ahead before moving the pieces.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Mexico City, Mexico

Alain Gordillo, 19, begins a game of pool with friends at Club Opera, a billiards club in central Mexico City. Gordillo and his friends meet weekly at the club to play pool and socialize.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

For three hours every day after school, Geovanni Tamayo, 16, plays handball with his friends at a basketball court in Mexico City's Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood. They don't play by the rules or to win points.

Photo by Mar García

Wakiso District, Uganda

Christine Nabasumba savors a successful move in a game of Ludo against a customer Ivan Mugabe at her retail shop in Kampala's Wakiso district. Both players say the game of strategy is a way to relax when they aren't busy.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Bongani Dube (left) trains Whitney Zuzvai during a class at the Panthers Taekwondo club in the central business district of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The club is preparing for a children's championship tournament on March 24.

Photo by Fortune Moyo

Mabvuku, Zimbabwe

Tatenda Seremwe (second from left) and Tonderai Goreraza (second from right) play a game they call Three Make a Line, a game they frequently play with friends on weekends in Mabvuku, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Seremwe says it is a mind game like chess and entails thinking of moves in advance. Goreraza says it keeps his mind fresh.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Kampala, Uganda

Siraje Munyagwa, 16, competes in an under-18 contest at the annual street jam skate party at the Kitintale Skate Park in Kampala, Uganda. Siraje emerged the winner in the Jan. 14 competition, which was organized by the Uganda Skateboard Union.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

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