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The Migrant Borders of Abdou Boubacar

04/06/2024, m.armanino

Fourteen useless months in prison for a young man just over twenty are not few. Abdou finds himself surprised, hungry and lost, counting the number of borders he has crossed since he was born who knows where, when, and why.

The three African shipwrecks of the West

05/05/2024, m.armanino

It is not just migrants or asylum seekers who are shipwrecked in the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, adding to the list of those missing in the waters that unite (and separate) the continents. What, perhaps less obviously but with no fewer consequences, are the shipwrecks of the European continent in Africa or, better, in the […]

The final resting place of Eto’o, an endless migrant

27/04/2024, m.armanino

He was familiarly called Eto'o by his traveling companions, like the well-known Cameroonian football player. He too, Feliciano, was originally from the same country and, in his own way, was famous in the field of migration

The future of the past or the past of the future

11/04/2024, m.armanino

Nine months passed from the end of July last year to April this year, the time of one gestation. The military putsch, which arrived relatively unexpectedly, was surprising above all due to the method used on the occasion. The kidnapping of the president in office in the presidential house by the guard who was supposed […]

Migrant women: one in five suffers sexual violence

26/03/2024, Redazione BnD

This year, UNHCR predicts that the number of individuals forced from their homes due to war, violence and persecution will exceed a record 130 million. There are currently around 114 million displaced people, with over half of them women and girls. The issue of sexual violence during the migration journey is the drama within the drama.

Areas at risk for humanitarian mission workers: Focus on West Africa

21/03/2024, Redazione BnD

A recent study released by the global organization for the safety of NGOs, known as the International NGO Safety Organization (INSO), has highlighted a significant concern for the safety of those involved in humanitarian missions, recording over the last year a total of 60 kidnapping incidents involving 146 staff members from various NGOs spread across 15 different countries.

Playing cops and robbers (cat and mouse) in the Sahel

17/03/2024, m.armanino

We played as kids, changing roles depending on the day. The thieves who were hiding and trying to escape the guards who were looking for them to arrest them and put them in 'prison'. The next day it happened opposite by reversing the identities. Guards because there were thieves and thieves who ran away because there were guards. Now is no longer the time for games because games are played in time, in today's history. Cops and robbers need each other to fulfill themselves.

The Sand Festival

26/02/2024, m.armanino

‘Thank you very much Mauro. I enjoyed all this sand literature. Tell me… what would you think of a Sand Festival? Thanks and see you soon, AKM’. .. I confess that the idea of ​​the friend who is an expert in rural management and development intrigued me. If etymologically the word ‘festival’ had a festive […]

Benedizioni dal Sahel

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 […]