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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.

Italy’s new course of energy cooperation and development in Africa

17/03/2024, Redazione BnD

March 16, 2024 marked the beginning of an ambitious initiative that aims to position Italy as a European energy hub and to renew the collaboration model with Africa in six key sectors: education, health, water resources, agriculture, energy and infrastructure.

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

, 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.

Sanitation revolution in Sierra Leone thanks to the 8×1000 to the Catholic Church

14/03/2024, Redazione BnD

Sanitation revolution in Sierra Leone thanks to the 8x1000 to the Catholic Church

And the ship goes. Navigation in the Sahel

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 […]

Project Echoes of Atlas

11/03/2024, Redazione BnD

Humanitarian emergency missions in Morocco. First shipment 13 / 17 April 2024 – Complete Next conceivable expedition: May / June 2024 – depends on fundraising for FOOD. The scars left by last September’s earthquake in the Atlas Mountains are deep and painful. Communities struggle daily facing the challenges of a mountainous area characterized by a […]

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 […]

Macron or the African catastrophe

18/02/2024, Redazione BnD

By Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Anthropologist By choosing, in response to the coups, to punish the populations of the Sahel – in particular by drastically cutting all humanitarian and development aid – President Macron is targeting the wrong target and playing into the hands of the military in power in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. […]

You Can Be a Hero Just for One Day

08/02/2024, Redazione BnD

"You can be a hero, just for one day" as David Bowie sang, the White Duke in "Heroes" is our anthem during humanitarian expeditions at every latitude; from desert to steppe. Each expedition to Ukraine is a journey of over 3,000 kilometres, in all weather conditions, often in the snow.