Solar plant contributes to Kenya's energy grid
In the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, a children’s village popularly known as SOS children’s home, has a solar energy generating plant that contribues to the country’s national grid. The channeled...
View ArticleLife for African students in India
Africans have a long history on the Indian subcontinent. In recent years, thousands of African students have been coming to study in Indian colleges, which have a reputation of offering quality...
View ArticleIndian NGO provides meal to 1.6 million children
What does it take to prepare food for hundreds of thousands of people every day? Is it state-of-the-art machinery or a lot of workers? Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO-run school meal program....
View ArticleHIV treatment in South Africa is still a struggle
Since South Africa hosted its first AIDS conference in Durban in 2000, the country has made huge gains in supplying ARVs - the important drugs that help people treat HIV and AIDS. But today South...
View ArticleUsing Tinder as a tool to advance women's rights in India
India has long been the land of online match-making, where mothers eagerly scan matrimonial web sites in search of the perfect son-in-law. But ever since Tinder exploded onto the scene three years ago,...
View ArticleUkrainian hackers leak personal information of journalists
In Ukraine, hackers have leaked an electronic database containing the details of hundreds of journalists and foreign correspondents. It's the second leak in the past four months. But with Ukraine’s...
View ArticleDRC to introduce new treatments to help intoxicated miners
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has one of the richest soils on earth, containing diamonds, coltan and gold for example. But the people working in the mines are exposed to serious health risks....
View ArticleTraining the next generation of Malian musicians during conflict
Mali’s famous festival in the desert was cancelled this year in the north of the country, another casualty of the country’s continuing unrest. But in Bamako the world-famous kora player Toumani Diabaté...
View ArticleHow Mauritania copes with climate change
Thunderstorms have begun in Nouakchott, marking the start of the Mauritanian capital's short rainy season. It's a worrying time for residents, given that Nouakchott is close to the Atlantic Ocean and...
View ArticleGaza's garment industry starts up again
In the Gaza strip, the garment industry has started up again after Israel relaxed restrictions. More than a hundred clothes factories have started operating in the past six months. But the factory...
View ArticleThe peace process between Farc and Colombia, part 1
In Colombia, the violence of the last five decades could be coming to an end as part of a peace deal that both sides have promised to sign: the government and the country’s largest guerrilla group, the...
View ArticleThe peace process between Farc and Colombia, part 2
In Colombia, the Farc rebel group is on the verge of signing a peace treaty with the government. For decades they've fought the government and have been blamed for kidnappings and drug running. While...
View ArticleThe peace process between Farc and Colombia, part 3
In Colombia, leftist rebels are preparing to sign a peace deal with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. The peace talks began in Havana, Cuba four years ago. But one of the main sticking...
View ArticleThe peace process between Farc and Colombia, part 4
Colombia’s government and leftist rebels appear to be close to a peace agreement, after half a century of warfare. The treaty will set the stage for a huge demobilization: an estimated 7,000 guerrillas...
View ArticleZambia's Supreme Court rejects opposition bid to stop Lungu's inauguration
In Zambia, Edgar Lungu is due to be inaugurated on Tuesday as president after elections last August. A last-minute attempt by defeated opposition candidate Hakainda Hichilema to stop the inauguration...
View ArticleIndia to ban commercial surrogacy
India is on course to ban commercial surrogacy and foreigners and non-resident-Indians from hiring surrogates in the country. Once approved, there will be a complete ban on commercial surrogacy but...
View ArticleColombia's Farc rebels prepare to hold final conference
After almost four years of talks in Cuba, Colombia’s government and the left-wing Farc rebels, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, agreed last month on a peace accord after half a century of...
View ArticleWill Guantanamo Bay finally close?
In the United States, the House of Representatives last week passed a bill to stop President Obama from releasing any more prisoners from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. But the bill is...
View ArticleWill Guantanamo Bay finally close? [Part 2]
With only a few months left in his presidency, Barack Obama is running out of time to close the American prison complex at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Opposition to its closure was voiced recently by...
View ArticleHow Indian widows turn their lives around
In India, life can sometimes become difficult for women who have lost their husbands. Many face rejection from their community, and sometimes destitution. But in one village that was originally...
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