Liberia looks for ways to make rubber prices bounce
In Liberia, former football star George Weah is beginning his third day in office after being sworn in as president on Monday. People are waiting to see how he plans to drive the country’s economy....
View ArticleSenegal: Clothing swap helps women in prison
Every year a group of women in Senegal organises a clothing drive to donate items of clothing to women in prison. In Senegal, 3.7% of the prison population is made up of women. They often lack...
View ArticleKosovo Pt 1: Unearthing Kosovo's 'hidden' Catholics
When Kosovo declared independence from Serbia ten years ago, it was as a secular state with no official state religion. Most of the two million people in Kosovo are Muslim, a legacy of Kosovo's time as...
View ArticleKosovo Pt2: Digital entrepreneurs could solve Kosovo's recognition crisis
Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia ten years ago, only 23 of the EU's 28 member states have recognised it. For Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia and Romania, the country simply doesn't exist....
View ArticleKosovo Pt3: Integrating Kosovo's minorities
Kosovo's main minority population are the Serbs, who live alongside the majority Albanian population. When the country became independent from Serbia ten years ago, its new constitution declared that...
View ArticleKosovo Pt4: Kosovo has Pride, but life is not easy for LGBT people
Just a few months ago (October 2017) the small Balkan country of Kosovo held its first official gay pride parade, in the capital Pristina. Life for gay and lesbian people in Kosovo still has its...
View ArticleKosovo Pt5: Strange brew? Kosovo Serbs seek acceptance
When Kosovo declared independence from Serbia ten years ago, many Serbs were living in Kosovo as a minority, in a country where Albanians are the majority: the Serbs had stayed in Kosovo after the wars...
View ArticleSurvivors of Sierra Leone mudslide still homeless
In Sierra Leone, six months after the deadly floods and mudslides, which killed more than 1,000 people, nothing has changed for the survivors. Those who had no family to welcome them, are still waiting...
View ArticleErdogan starts five day visit of Africa
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan starts a five day visit of North and West Africa. The tour is latest effort by Turkey to project its influence across the continent and enhance its global...
View ArticleHow Riders for Health are improving the Gambia's emergency health services
In an effort to improve its emergency services, The Gambia chose to delegate the management of ambulances to an organisation called Riders for Health. The British NGO has been in charge of all the...
View ArticleThe Gambia offers conventional reponse to mental health problems
Psychiatry remains a under developed area of health across most of West Africa. In the Gambia, there is only one psychiatric hospital for the whole country, which means around 100 beds for two million...
View ArticleHealth in the Gambia plagued by poor conditions
According to a study released in January by the medical journal The Lancet, a patient going through surgery in Africa is twice as likely to die following the operation than elsewhere in the world. The...
View ArticleFusing traditional with conventional medicine in the Gambia
Traditional medicine still plays an important role in Gambian healthcare. In the villages, the 'marabouts' or traditional healers, who are capable of healing what ails a person are often preferred over...
View ArticleDRC conflict sees thousands of refugees flee to Uganda
Thousands of refugees from Ituri Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo are fleeing to neighbouring Uganda, as an ongoing conflict between Hema and Lendu ethnic groups continues...
View ArticleWhat does the South think of Trump 14 months on?
Fourteen months after Donald Trump entered the White House, RFI's correspondent Colm Flynn travelled across six of the southern states of the US and asked people who had voted for him how they feel...
View ArticleIndian women take the lead on sustainable agriculture
In India, over 12,000 farmers have committed suicide each year since 2013, due to long periods of drought and chronic debt. But in some rural communities, women are now taking the lead, and developing...
View ArticleStudents lead 'March for our Lives' protests in the US
Over one million students, parents, and supporters of gun control took part in protests this weekend across the United States. The demonstrations were collectively known as "March for our Lives", and...
View ArticleLiberians look to the future without UNMIL peacekeeping mission
By the 31st of this month, the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) will officially come to an end. The world’s governing body deployed its peacekeepers to the country in October...
View ArticleAquarius - Search and Rescue ship in action
Every year thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reported that over 10,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in first two months of...
View ArticleAboard the SOS - one woman's story
Those trying to leave Africa or the Middle East by making the journey across the Mediterranean are often saved by the SOS-MSF NGO vessel Aquarius. One such woman was rescued and told her story to Filip...
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