International report - The dangerous truth about Chernobyl
In the second part of our short series on clearing up thirty-three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, RFI’s Dhananjay Khadilkar speaks to Adam Higginbotham, author of the book Midnight in...
View ArticleInternational report - Living with load shedding in Zambia
As daily power-cuts become the norm in Zambia, effects are being felt by households, farms and small businesses as well as in crucial industrial sectors such as mining. Zambia still relies on hydro...
View ArticleInternational report - Guardians of the trees ensure Senegal's greenness
Around seven kilometres of the corniche along Dakar’s coastline are getting a make over. Some 500 trees and 300 shrubs are being planted along the windy cliff edge road in a bid to "green" the city...
View ArticleInternational report - Will Indian political comedy have the last laugh?
Over the past decade, stand-up comedy has become hugely popular in India. The trend is picking up where comedians are emerging as a genuine and earthy oppositional voice. They don't just speak truth...
View ArticleInternational report - When the going gets tough, the tough go to the cinema
Paris is the third-most popular destination in the world, after Bangkok and London, with nearly 40 million visitors every year. How do those tourists, and the locals, get through the long, hot summer?...
View ArticleInternational report - Sex education through football to the youth of Côte...
Cote d’Ivoire is football mad. Its men’s team may have gone a lot further in the African Cup of Nations than its women’s team in the World Cup, but football is still proving popular among girls. An...
View ArticleInternational report - Brexit, environment among main stories at Edinburgh...
The Festival season has begun in the Scottish capital. For the next four weeks, Edinburgh will be seized by a frenzy of culture, with a mission to entertain but also to educate and start conversations...
View ArticleInternational report - India court extends deadline for illegal immigrant...
India’s highest court has extended by one month a deadline for the government to hunt down illegal immigrants in the state of Assam, bordering Bangladesh. The order came as a reprieve for millions of...
View ArticleInternational report - African brewmaster takes on Belgium
There are over two hundred breweries in Belgium, the highest concentration of beer makers in the world. But one brew master stands out from the crowd...John Christian Kavakure fled Burundi 25 years...
View ArticleInternational report - Flowers, birds, trees and jazz - in Paris!
Every summer, the botanical gardens of Paris come alive with a series of free open-air concerts. In this second part of our special series 'A Parisian Summer', Arnab Béranger goes to the Parc Floral -...
View ArticleInternational report - How to stop increasing rates of violence against women...
Violence persists against women and girls in Liberia, nearly two decades after the end of the country’s brutal civil war in 2004 and despite a law that makes rape a non-bailable offense, sexual abuse...
View ArticleInternational report - Part 1: Surprising results when computers play one...
Ever since IBM's chess programme Deep Blue beat world champion Gary Kasparov in 1996, it's no longer news when a chess computer beats a top human player. Now the machines are playing one another, as...
View ArticleInternational report - Part 2: What to learn when computers win at chess
In the second part of a short series on what we can learn from high-powered computer programmes, Dhanajay Khadilkar looks at the way human chess players are changing their strategies, because of the...
View ArticleInternational report - Happiness added to school curriculum in New Delhi
To help young students cope with stress, government schools across the Indian capital, New Delhi have added a new subject to their schedules: happiness. The class carries no grade and has no...
View ArticleInternational report - Fancy a day at the beach in central Paris?
That question is not as strange as it might sound.Every summer since 2002, the banks of the Seine and the La Villette Canal Basin in Paris turn into a seaside resort known as 'Paris Plages'....
View ArticleInternational report - US star gymnast recalls sexual assault as teenager at...
Rachel Haines was a star US gymnast who suffered years of abuse by her then coach, Larry Nassar. Since the national scandal broke in 2016, more than 250 women have accused Larry Nassar of sexual...
View ArticleInternational report - Part 2: Former US gymnast was one of hundreds sexually...
We’re going back to the US for part two of our special report with former US gymnast Rachel Haines. Rachel was one of hundreds of girls abused over years by their then-team coach, Larry Nassar. Today,...
View ArticleInternational report - Part 2: Tackling racial and class inequality through...
Arts and entertainment have taken over every corner in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. We're two weeks into the Edinburgh Festivals, and just about every bar, theatre and concert hall is tackling...
View ArticleInternational report - Militancy on the rise in Kashmir
More university graduates are joining militancy in Kashmir than ever before. The trend is gathering pace as India tries to strip decades-old special rights from the country’s only Muslim-majority...
View ArticleInternational report - Paris, from the water
A UN tourism report ranks France at the top tourist destination in the world, with nearly 90 million tourists last year. Fifty million visit Paris alone, according to the mayor's office. For the...
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