Environmental degradation will make the planet face up to challenges unknown until now. As a consequence of the deterioration of the environment, Africa is experiencing the phenomenon of climate-driven migration. Africa is currently home to more than 1.3 billion people, a figure that could double…
Fishing rights sold off by governments to foreign companies. Illegal fishing and how it damages the environment. Drug trafficking. Factors that impoverish and render insecure…
Mogadishu and the Federal States are on a collision course regarding different issues, especially the management of the elections to be held next year,…
The drug-mafias have become experts in organization and logistical planning for the management of the dispatch and distribution of drugs by sea. The Sea…
The continent of Africa is becoming one of the major transit hubs for the movement of drugs. In a report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) stated that 'With their experience in the field of contraband hashish and heroin, the drugs cartels of Western Africa are seeking new contacts in Latin America to extend the…
The region has acquired a key role in the drugs trade, becoming the major platform of intercontinental trade in cocaine, not only because of its strategic location but also because it is fertile ground for creating local groups interested in what they can gain from this commerce. The Atlantic coast, composed of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and, to a…
A large part of the drugs coming from Latin America and Asia is controlled and managed by gangs of Nigerians (such as the Area boys known as Agberos, other gangs of young boys called Bakassi and the fearsome violent confraternity of the Black Axe) dominated by the powerful Nigerian mafia which, with its centres in Europe…
The North African area, with its vast desert regions that are difficult to police and include the roads and tracks of the Sahara Desert, has become the main crossroads for trafficking in arms, migrants and narcotics. Among the various roads across the desert that descend from Algeria to its southern regions, there is the ancient 'Cart Road' across…
Comboni Brother Juan Carlos Salgado, a medical doctor, has the joy of…
Evangelisation is transformation at two levels: religious and social. The ultimate end…
A Comboni Missionary, Father Dario Bossi took part in the Synod of Amazonia…
A Catholic nurse dedicates her life to Meeting Point International, an association…
In the Nahuatl language, spoken in the central region of Mexico,…
The Banyankole are a Ugandan tribe found in South-western Uganda. They…
Deeply rooted in the land and culture of his ancestors, Achinoam…
According to indigenous wisdoms, life on Pacha (earth) originated from water…
While Europe is only tentatively taking action against the flood of plastic articles, countries in Africa…
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In February 2018, in the midst of ongoing political turmoil, few could have predicted the radical…
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Concluding the Special Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, Pope Francis in his homily said with a witty remark that the final document speaking of…
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0ne day, a long time ago when there was a famine in a certain part of Africa, Hare met Hyena. “How thin you are looking,” said…
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During the Synod for Amazonia, we heard stories of young Indios who struggle against environmental exploitation, in recognition of their own identity, and they want to…
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