International report - India's PM unveils a TV station dedicated to him
India’s ruling party has rolled out a TV station dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Opposition parties complained it provided unfair advantage ahead of a national election. But in case he is...
View ArticleInternational report - The rising vengance of India's sacred cows
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature drive to protect cows has come home with a vengance during the ongoing national election. The rising population of wandering cattle trampling crops has...
View ArticleInternational report - East Africa Climate Change
Temperatures in east Africa have been soaring. The long-awaited March to May seasonal rainfall has been delayed. Experts believe cyclone Idai in Mozambique to be one of the factors contributing to the...
View ArticleInternational report - The value of forest conservation in Cote d'Ivoire
Frank Hersey looks at the way farmers in Cote d'Ivoire are learning the value of protecting local forests. Click the 'play' button above to listen or subscribe to our podcast by searching 'rfi...
View ArticleInternational report - Interview with Police drummer Stewart Copeland
Recently in the city of Lausanne, in Switzerland, radio broadcasters from across Europe came together for the annual 'Radiodays Europe' conference. Now in its 10th year, the conference aims to...
View ArticleInternational report - Coaching boost for Gaza's amputee footballers
Scores of Gaza-based amputees recently received a unique sports training at the hands of an international coach, who is himself an amputee. The training lasted one week and involved football players,...
View ArticleInternational report - African culinary roadshow hits Dakar
Delicious smells have been wafting over Dakar this week as the Afro Cooking roadshow We Eat Africa, set up base in the Senegalese capital. Frequently under-appreciated off the continent, African...
View ArticleInternational report - How Cameroon's armed conflict is making medical access...
In Cameroon's restive Anglophone regions - where armed groups campaigning for a separate state -- pregnant women face major difficulties in accessing medical care. Many residents fear being attacked...
View ArticleInternational report - Fright flight
World migratory bird day lands on 11 May. It will be an occasion to highlight thousands of species which migrate around the world, stopping in some of the most beautiful natural wetlands. Sometimes...
View ArticleInternational report - Bollywood plays lead role in India elections
India's film industry, the legendary Bollywood, has been playing a lead role in the country's on-going epic elections, involving 900 million voters. Many top actors have jumped aboard the political...
View ArticleInternational report - Has Liberia's George Weah scored an own goal?
The Liberian economy has taken a serious nose-dive under the leadership of former soccer icon, President George Weah. He came to power in January 2018, elected on promises to revive the nation’s...
View ArticleInternational report - Irrigation projects flood Zimbabwe's worst-hit drought...
The United Nations says it is struggling to raise funds to ease food insecurity in Zimbabwe where over five million people need assistance after the country was hit by an El Nino-induced drought. In...
View ArticleInternational report - Miles of Smiles convoy arrives in Gaza
Forty-one international peace activists from different Islamic and European countries arrived in Gaza earlier this month, for a five-day visit. The activists represent the Miles of Smiles convoy that...
View ArticleInternational report - Wave of suicides among Indian students
No fewer than 23 teenage students committed suicide in a single week in April in the Indian state of Telangana after they failed their high school exams. Thousands of others also failed to make the...
View ArticleInternational report - India awards largest compensation to Bilkis Bano, a...
In March 2002, Bilkis Bano was gang raped and 14 members of her family murdered in one of the worst episodes during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. India’s Prime...
View ArticleInternational report - How Istanbul mayor could pose biggest threat to...
Ekrem Imamoglu shook Turkish politics when he won Istanbul's mayorship, ending 25 years of domination by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party. But Turkey’s electoral board controversially ordered a...
View ArticleInternational report - India's Dhobi Ghat laundry workers care more about...
As the eyes of the world turn towards India where ballot counting is continuing after a month-long election involving 900 million voters, we go to one area in Mumbai where many voters work in the...
View ArticleInternational report - Should I stay or should I go? Scotland and the...
With Brexit being postponed until later this year, the United Kingdom is obliged to take part in the European Parliament elections. Voters in the UK, including EU citizens, are going to the polls...
View ArticleInternational report - Growing industry of video games in Côte d'Ivoire
The global video games industry is now worth 120 billion Euros; three times the size of the film industry. And it's growing fast with the popularity of mobile gaming. As games become increasingly...
View ArticleInternational report - Finding jobs for LGBT people across Côte d'Ivoire
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) campaigners face widly different situations across Africa. South Africa allows same sex marriage, but many governments in east Africa are becoming...
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