Photographer of the year: Goran Tomasevic

A building burns after an air strike in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus in January Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Free Syrian Army fighters take cover as they enter an army base to take part in an attack in Damascus Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A Free Syrian Army fighter, who was wounded by a sniper, is carried by other fighters outside a Syrian army base during heavy fighting in Damascus Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Masai women wait to cast ballot papers in a polling station during the presidential and parliamentary elections near Magadii, Kenya, in March Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A boy plays in the main town on Lamu, an island in the Indian Ocean off the northern coast of Kenya Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A customer sits in a barbershop in Lamu town Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

An Orthodox Christian walks between the famous monolithic churches cut out from rock in Lalibela, Ethiopia, during a Good Friday celebration Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Orthodox Christians sell chickens for an Easter meal in Lalibela, Ethiopia Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

People scramble for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenya, in September Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A child runs to safety at the Westgate centre Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

People come out from hiding under a car next to bodies in a car park as police search for gunmen in the Westgate shopping centre Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A man prays outside a church in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, during a vigil for victims of the shooting attack at the Westgate shopping centre Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A woman prepares tea at an outdoor shop in the town of Abyei Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A man gestures during a rally in the border town of Abyei Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

An elderly man walks out of a polling station in a school during a referendum in Abyei. Residents of the disputed region voted overwhelmingly to join South Sudan Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Sudan People's Liberation Army soldiers in a vehicle in Juba, South Sudan Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

An internally displaced man holds his son inside a United Nations compound in Juba, South Sudan, in December Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A man from the Dinka tribe holds his AK47 rifle at a cattle herders' camp near Rumbek, South Sudan Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters