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The World Food Programme’s Home-grown school feeding program has been making a big difference in the lives of schoolchildren in Rwanda. Implemented successfully in seven districts, this program provides nutritious meals to children, promoting their education, health, and sanitation. The goal of the program is to ensure that every child receives a healthy meal every day by 2030.Rwanda has also… Read More

A dozen mayors from several towns on the Comoran island of Anjouan protest on the streets of the capital Mutsamudu against France’s controversial operation “Wuambushu”, aimed at kicking out undocumented migrants, many of them Comorans, from the French island of Mayotte. According to Zarouki Bouchrane, the mayor of Mutsamudu, his city “cannot accommodate” all the people regularly expelled from Mayotte. The… Read More

So many migrants risking the dangerous sea crossing from Tunisia to Europe have drowned that morgues and hospitals in the key launchpad city of Sfax are full, officials said Friday. “On Tuesday, we had more than 200 bodies, well beyond the capacity of the hospital, which creates a health problem,” said Faouzi Masmoudi, justice official in the port city of… Read More

A group of environmentalists in Libya are hoping to save its remaining green spaces from logging, development, and the impacts of climate change. The “Friends of the Tree” association works to raise awareness about green areas around the capital Tripoli that are quickly disappearing because of drought, human activity, and desertification. “Man has destroyed forests” and much of the vegetation,… Read More

It is a trip they almost stopped dreaming of. Nine Senegalese veterans, aged 85 to 96, who fought for France during the XXth century, will join their families in Senegal. After years and sometimes decades of living thousands of miles from their relatives so they could claim their French army pension, the soldiers were moved on their way to the airport… Read More

Veteran Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, led a cavalcade of cars through the streets of Nairobi on Friday, shortly after his return from a trip to Dubai. In a festive atmosphere, the large crowd of supporters followed his convoy through the streets of the city as it made its way to a rally in the district of Kibera. It was… Read More

Shocking news struck the runners of the Marathon des Sables late Thursday (Apr. 27). 9-time winner of the race, Rachid El Morabity threw in the towel a few minutes after being caught red-handed with food in the bag. The goal of the race is to cover 250 km in 7 days across the Sahara, in food self-sufficiency. Any food provided by… Read More

Twenty-two-year-old self-taught painter, Johny Alexandre Gomes, is making waves on the Brazilian art scene. Known by the name “Jota”, his works are highly sought after by collectors both at home and abroad. His creations are drawn from the Rio’s Chapadao favela, or poor working-class neighbourhood, where he grew up, and where both he and his mother still live. He is… Read More

Thousands of people continue to escape to safety outside Khartoum, as fighting rages on in Sudan, despite rival forces agreeing to extend the latest truce. Hundreds have been killed and thousands others wounded in the nearly two weeks of warfare been the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The intense warfare has caused widespread destruction and left people short… Read More

A transgender Rwandan fashion designer who counted President Paul Kagame among her clients has been arrested on charges of forgery after claiming her passport had been altered to reflect her new gender, police said Friday. Moses Turahirwa, 35, was taken into custody on Thursday after sharing a photo of her passport on Instagram, claiming that the gender section had been… Read More