India battles with sexual violence against women - Part 2
Despite changes in India’s laws relating to sexual crime nothing much has changed on the ground. There has been more crime against women but one redeeming factor has been that more women especially in...
View ArticleRemembering Auschwitz-Birkenau 72 years on
This week marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2005 the United Nations General Assembly designated the 27th of January as a day of commemoration for Holocaust victims. RFI’s Filip Warwick...
View ArticleRemembering Auschwitz-Birkenau 72 years on - Part 2
By the middle of the 16th century three-quarters of all Jews lived in Poland. At the time, Poland gained a reputation as a "heaven for the Jews". For 400 years until the Nazi Holocaust, the country was...
View ArticleShining 'Lights of Africa' in Dakar
Millions of people across Africa still have little or no electric light. To illustrate the realities of living without light, artists from almost all African countries have been brought together to...
View ArticleHow climate change threatens India's tea
In Northeast India, tea growers are facing a problem. Temperatures keep going up and rains have become unpredictable. This year was the hottest on record, according to Nasa. Jack Fereday reports from...
View ArticleIsraeli hospitals extend helping hands to Syria Pt 1
During the war in Syria hundreds of wounded Syrians have fled to Israel for medical care. Israel's military and Israeli medical sources say that since 2013, more than two and a half thousand civilians...
View ArticleIsraeli hospitals extend helping hands to Syria Pt 2
In the last three years, Israel says it has given medical care to more than two and a half thousand Syrians. But once these Syrians recover in Israeli hospitals, can they be sent back to Syria while...
View ArticleThe darker side of Korean fried chicken
South Korean fried chicken has taken Asia by storm and some of the country’s most popular chicken franchises have opened up at locations throughout east and south-east Asia. Back in Korea there are so...
View ArticleMinsk agreement two years on
Two years ago, the presidents of France, Russia and Ukraine along with German Chancellor Merkel agreed to a peace deal, known as the Minsk Agreement. The aim of the deal was to bring about a lasting...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority bans novel
In Ramallah the Palestinian general attorney has banned a novel after deeming it offensive to public morals. He has also instructed security forces to confiscate all copies of the novel, A Crime in...
View ArticleOn the trail of missing Gambia journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh
In Gambia, for more than ten years the family of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh have been trying to find out the truth behind his disappearence. He was arrested by Gambia’s national intelligence...
View ArticleArmyworm threatens crops in Zimbabwe
Today the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is holding an emergency meeting in the Zimbabwean capital to try to halt the spread of armyworm, a highly-damaging pest. Zimbabwe is one of three...
View ArticleReforming Gambia's notorious National Intelligence Agency
In Gambia, the government of president Adama Barrow has the said it will reform its notorious prison system. It has already renamed and started reorganising Gambia's infamous NIA - the national...
View ArticleMusic for morale in Ukraine's Avdiivka city
In eastern Ukraine, the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk province has become the latest flashpoint in the conflict. The 16,000 inhabitants of the city have found themselves without water, electricity and...
View ArticleCAR one year on
Tuesday 14 February will mark a year since elections were held in the Central African Republic. Since then thousands have been driven from their homes by fighting between the Seleka rebels who deposed...
View ArticleCatalonia to scrap siesta
Spain's famous afternoon siesta could be consigned to history if the government gets its way. Just before Christmas the country's labour minister called for a "national pact" to change Spain's system...
View ArticleHow has demonetisation affected India's rural poor? part 1
In November 2016 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500 and 1,000 Rupee banknotes would no longer be legal currency, aiming to combat tax cheating, counterfeit and corruption. But the...
View ArticleHow has demonetisation affected India's rural poor? part 2
Demonetisation was supposed to be a historic and game-changing move by India's Prime Minister Narendera Modi when it was introduced late last year. One of the benefits was supposed to be the...
View ArticleCape Town Art Fair showcases artists from Africa
Some 400 artists from Africa and 60 galleries from across the continent and Europe were showcased at the 2017 Cape Town Art Fair, which took place this past weekend in South Africa. In the Tomorrow’s...
View ArticleWhat astronauts eat in space
The Frenchman sent to the international space station a few months ago, Thomas Pesquet, will celebrate his birthday today, four hundred kilometres above Earth. He’ll be 39. And because it’s his...
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