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Libya Ceasefire Falters: New clashes between the battling sides in Libya are threatening to tip the now six year conflict into a dangerous new phase of fighting just as the country anticipates the spread of coronavirus. The two sides in a conflict that has raged since 2014 briefly agreed last weekend to a humanitarian truce, but within 24 hours fighting resumed at an even more intense pace. The battle for Tripoli has become one of the planet’s most internationalized wars with different countries arming either side of the fight. General Haftar is helped by the UAE or United Arab Emirates and also backed by Egypt and France. His fighters include Russian, Sudanese and Syrian mercenaries. Meanwhile the GNA, which is recognized by the UN as Libya’s official government, receives military support from Turkey. Both sides seem to believe that with international actors distracted by the coronavirus pandemic now is the right moment to try to take decisive steps in the civil war. The upsurge in fighting, probably the worst since the current phase of the civil war began, came as the first coronavirus case was revealed in the country and led to yet another UN security council call for both sides to end the fighting. Jens Laerke, the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated recently ”In Libya, the UN fears that a possible outbreak would overwhelm the already stretched humanitarian aid capacity,” he stressed. He said the UN is supporting authorities in the country for COVID-19 preparedness and response efforts.

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March 14, 2020, Florida, USA: Poll worker Kathleen Fahey greets a voter after he casts his ballot during early voting at the Gardens Branch Library in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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March 19th, 2020: An intensive care unit of the Poliambulanza hospital in Brescia, Italy

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No single story has drastically affected the world more than the Coronavirus. Accordingly, the March 2020 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress has been dedicated to the remarkable work of photojournalists who have covered the global pandemic and how it has influenced every aspect of our daily lives.

ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, and the POM Editor-in-Chief Jim Colton made this ZUMA show possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.

Photographers © Abed Alrahman Alkahlout • Adisorn Chabsungnoen • Albert Ivan Damanik • Alberto Lingria • Alex Lentati • Alexander Shcherbak • Andrew Mccaren • Andrew Milligan • Ben Stevens • Beppe Bedolis • Cadu Rolim • Cai Yang • Can Ozer • Carlo Cozzoli • Caroline Brehman • Carsten Koall • Chen Yehua • Chong Voon Chung • Chris Putnam • Claudio Furlan • Darek Szuster • David Becker • David Crane • David Davies • David Tanecek • Dmitry Feoktistov • Donal Husni • Dylan Meiffret • Gareth Fuller • Gavriil Grigorov • Gehad Hamdy • Greg Lovett • Hassan Jedi • Hendrik Schmidt • Herwin Bahar • Hussain Ali • John Gastaldo • Jorg Carstensen • Jose Carlos Fajardo • Keith Tsuji • Kevin Dietsch • Khandaker Azizur Rahman Sumon • Kristin Callahan • Leonard Ortiz • Luciana Guerra • Majdi Fathi • Marcus Santos • Marechal Aurore • Matthias Oesterle • Md Rafayat Haque Khan • Michael Brochstein • Michael Kappeler • Michael Nagle • Mohamed Shokry • Mohammad Rakibul Hasan • Niklas Larsson • Pascal Bonniere • Patrick Pleul • Paul Hennessy • Paul Kuroda • Peter Kovalev • Qian Weizhong • Ramiro Agustin Vargas Tabares • Rana Sajid Hussain • Raphael Lafargue • Ringo Chiu • Roberto Monaldo • Robin Utrecht • Rodrigo Reyes Marin • Rouzbeh Fouladi • Sarah Reingewirtz • Scott Keeler • Sebastian Gollnow • Sergei Bobylev • Shealah Craighead • Skanda Gautam • Sonia Moskowitz • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Stefani Reynolds • Utrecht Robin • Vanessa Carvalho • Wang Jingqiang • William Volcov • Xie Jianfei • Xiong Qi • Yuri Gripas • Zikri Maulana

Newspapers, Picture Agencies + Wire Services:

Abaca • Ace Pictures • Bildbyran • CDC • CNP • CTK • Congressional Quarterly • DPA • Depo Photos • Fotoarena • Globe Photos • i-Images • Imago • LaPresse • London News Pictures • Maxppp • NIAID • NurPhoto • Orange County Register • PA • Pacific Press • Palm Beach Post • Quds Net News • ROPI • SOPA Images • TASS • TNS • TPG • Tampa Bay Times • The White House • Urdee Image • Xinhua • Yonhap News • ZUMA Wire

Music: ‘Black Sword’ by jjjack

“NBC Today show put together an amazing piece on the true heroes and moments of the World Pandemic. They featured this image, it is an amazing moment in the War on this virus. Shot in Binzhou, China in a special isolation ward by a TPG photographer. Amazing composition and Moment. Bravo! The other heroes out there are the photojournalists like this one, risking their lives to bring back the stories that need to be told, and the images we need to see to understand.” – Scott Mc Kiernan, picture editor/founder of ZUMA Press. 

Frontline Heroes: COVID-19 Nurses

January 28, 2020, Zouping, Binzhou, Shandong, China: Overwhelmed with emotion, nurses hug. Hands and hugs as nurses comfort each other. They are part of a eight nurse and doctors team, taking care of patients who have new coronavirus COVID-19 pneumonia, in the isolation ward in the Zouping People’s Republic Hostipal. (Credit Image: © TPG via ZUMA Press)

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