Stories of refugee displacement have once again featured among the winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism.

Images of Yemen’s devastating civil war and of migrants trying to enter the US were among the major winners of the 2019 Pulitzer awards.

Lorenzo Tougnoli was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for images from Yemen that he produced while on assignment for The Washington Post.

Photographers from Reuters won the Pulitzer for breaking news photography for their images exploring the plight of migrants headed to the United States.

Reuters’s prizewinning entry, “On the Migrant Trail to America,” featured the work of 11 photographers from around the globe covering the desperate trek of Central American asylum seekers on the United States-Mexico border.

The photos include scenes of a mother and twin daughters being dispersed by tear gas used by American immigration authorities and a striking aerial photo of a Texas detention facility showing children walking in single file.

The agency also won an award for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces.

This follows Reuters winning the feature photography Pulitzer last year for its coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis, and sharing the 2016 prize for breaking news photography on refugees.

The Washington Post’s Lorenzo Tougnoli said he drew on his experience covering conflict to delve deeply into the crisis in Yemen, where fighting between rebels and pro-government factions supported by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has claimed the lives of some 50,000 people over the past four years.

Yemen’s 28 million citizens have faced conflict, famine and disease for over four years.

“It is really important, this recognition. I think this crisis is not over. I think it is important that people keep talking about what happened there, the involvement the United States has in the war and the support they give to Saudi Arabia. I hope these awards are going to push the attention on this crisis,” Mr Tougnoli said.

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