This is a crucial week for Africa. Six states voted on 20 March, the African Super Sunday according to local press: five countries held presidential and parliamentary elections while one voted on a constitutional referendum. Benin In Benin, Prime Minister Lionel Zinzou and cotton tycoon Patrice Talon face each other in run-off presidential elections, after the first round ended
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Barack Obama è sbarcato all’Avana 88 anni dopo l’ultimo viaggio di un presidente americano a Cuba. Ecco come tutto ha avuto inizio.
The election of the billionaire candidate Donald Trump to the White house is riskier than the UK leaving the European Union, Greece leaving the euro zone and an armed clash in the South China Sea, analysts say.
“It is tragic and shameful that we are so far away from that point,” from the end of the Syrian civil war. American actress Angelina Jolie visited Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, at the border with Syria, as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Aid isn’t enough Her visit, on the
5 years of war made Syria a land riddled with unexploded mines and bombs. So many that entirely demining the country will require dozens of years of work. This tragic long-term consequence of the conflict has been denounced by the French association Handicap International. In a report published on 15 March in Paris, the organisation
One child has already died due to mercury poisoning, which has put the safety of up to 80% of the indigenous Nahua tribe, who live in the Peruvian Amazon, in jeopardy. The circumstances as to why the majority of the community presents symptoms of intoxication caused by the substance remain unclear. Its high levels in
https://youtu.be/Ciavyc6bE7A #OpTrump In a video released on its Youtube channel, the hacker-activist (hacktivist) group Anonymous has declared that it will mount a campaign against Republican candidate Donald Trump, currently leading the presidential primaries. In the video a spokesperson wearing the group’s trademark disguise, a mask with the face of Guy Fawkes (the man who tried
The best teacher in the world teaches about nonviolence to children of West Bank. Hanan Al Hroub, 43-year-old Palestinian woman, was awarded the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2016, the equivalent of Nobel Prize for teaching, during the Educations and Skills Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Hanan al Hroub: her story Al Hroub didn’t study to
Fotografie e filmati dell’Unicef raccontano il terribile impatto della guerra in Siria sui 3,7 milioni di bambini nati dall’inizio del conflitto.
