13/03/2024, m.armanino
Where is unknown. It is difficult to say where the sand ship that set sail last year, in July after the coup, is going. Navigation interrupted due to mutiny, resumed and oriented towards a destination unknown to most. The Ramadan season which falls at this time appears propitious to the […]
06/02/2024, m.armanino
Like everything that concerns us, even blessings are made of dust, or rather wind dust. In recent days, in Niamey the capital and its surroundings, they have returned. The wind that brings the desert dust that cools at night and in the early morning. The afternoons are sunny but not excessively because we are in […]
01/02/2024, m.armanino
Yet change was around the corner. The old world was disappearing and a push from the shoulder was enough to bring it down. They were the working-class years of the assemblies, of the 150 paid hours in the factory for the middle school diploma and Don Milani's flagship text 'Letter to a Professor'.
20/01/2024, Redazione BnD
Faced with a volatile security environment, poor families in areas under lockdown in the Sahel region in general, and in Djibo municipality in particular, could see their situation worsen if assistance is not strengthened.
11/01/2024, Redazione BnD
On September 16, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed an agreement inaugurating a new coalition between these Sahelian states. This initiative laid the foundation for even broader transformations.
07/01/2024, Luca Iotti
Increasing global deforestation is taking on dramatic proportions, with devastating consequences that are alarmingly reflected in areas of high population density, such as the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa.
02/01/2024, Luca Iotti
With the beginning of 2024, Children in the Desert is preparing to open a new chapter in its history, this time in the heart of the Sahara desert in Agadez, Niger. After more than twenty years of experience in this country, we are turning our vision into reality by creating Children in the Niger Desert, a new NGO that will carry forward our common mission of aid and development.
23/12/2023, Luca Iotti
In a context of widespread corruption that undermines the development of Africa, we at "Children in the Desert" raise our voice, highlighting how this phenomenon constitutes a significant obstacle to the growth and prosperity of the continent. From the far south to the north, corruption seems to permeate every level of society, from a simple policeman stopping a motorist on the street to a ruler granting gold mining concessions.
14/12/2023, m.armanino
The first thing we breathe together, in this season of the Sahel called Harmattan, is dust. We all breathe it, albeit in different ways. There are those who wear Covid masks and those who, more respectful of tradition, cover a good part of their faces with a turban in the style of the 'Tuareg' who have great experience in this area.
