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The good and bad of revolutions

24/03/2024, m.armanino

The good guys are coming… They’re coming, they’re coming. Niger experienced its first putsch in 1974. It was organized by a quartet of officers led by Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché who justified his seizure of power with the social difficulties highlighted by the famine… ‘After 15 years of reign marked by injustice, corruption , selfishness […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]