Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment. The winners for the March 2016 AP Staff Photo Contest are Petros Giannakouris, Vadim Ghirda, Boris Grdanoski, Visar Kryeziu and Darko Vojinovic in News Photography for “Migrants,” Mark Schiefelbein, Andy Wong and Ng Han Guan in Feature Photography for “National People's Congress,” and Ashwini Bhatia, Rafiq Maqbool, Manish Swarup, Tsering Topgyal, Rajanish Kakade, Aijaz Rahi, Bernat Armangue, Altaf Qadri, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Bikas Das and Saurabh Das in Sports Photography for “The ICC World Twenty20.”

Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images are featured below.

News Photography | Migrants by Petros Giannakouris, Vadim Ghirda, Boris Grdanoski, Visar Kryeziu and Darko Vojinovic

Feature Photography | National People's Congress by Mark Schiefelbein, Andy Wong and Ng Han Guan

Sports Photography | The ICC World Twenty20 by Ashwini Bhatia, Rafiq Maqbool, Manish Swarup, Tsering Topgyal, Rajanish Kakade, Aijaz Rahi, Bernat Armangue, Altaf Qadri, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Bikas Das and Saurabh Das

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