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Criminal Networks and Local Allies.

The Latin American cartels, from Bolivians to Mexicans. The Italian 'Ndrangheta. The ‘friendships’ with African entrepreneurs…

01 Jul 2023, Dossier July 2023

African drug routes.

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda are the main transit countries for heroin. West Africa, that…

01 Jul 2023, Dossier July 2023

Africa and the Drug Market.

Within an expanding market, the role of Africa is also becoming increasingly important. Not only as…

01 Jul 2023, Dossier July 2023

Consumption and national legislation.

After decades of harsh prohibition, several African states have opted for policies that tend to liberalize…

01 Jul 2023, Dossier July 2023

A Journey through the Kunama Culture.

The Kunama ethnic group resides mainly in the Gash-Barka region of Eritrea, between the Gash and…

01 Jun 2023, Dossier June 2023

The Celebration of Marriage.

After the initiation ceremony (Anfura-la) or the passage from adolescence to youth, the young Kunama sets…

01 Jun 2023, Dossier June 2023

Religious Belief among the Kunama.

When the Kunama are asked: ‘Ayshila mekobino?’, they reply: ‘Ánnala'la makobinke’ (we believe in God). The…

01 Jun 2023, Dossier June 2023

Getting out. The purification of the mother.

The life of the Kunama, from birth to old age – and even after death, is…

01 Jun 2023, Dossier June 2023

Between terrorist threats and Unsolved problems.

The political instability seen before, the ethnic tensions both in the country and in the region,…

01 May 2023, Dossier May 2023

Ivory Coast. An uncertain future.

A leading country in West Africa, Ivory Coast has weaknesses that could not only block economic…

01 May 2023, Dossier May 2023

Open wounds.

The wounds caused by the two civil wars are still open since they have not yet…

01 May 2023, Dossier May 2023

Ivory Coast and France.

The prolonged phase of unrest reduced the influence of Ivory Coast on the international scene. During…

01 May 2023, Dossier May 2023

The extermination of the Mayan communities.

The political instability that affected the country following the 1954 coup d'état reached its peak in…

01 Apr 2023, Dossier April 2023

Guatemala. A Wounded Country.

A past full of violence and abuse. Drug trafficking, corruption, weak or non-existent institutions. Meanwhile, next…

01 Apr 2023, Dossier April 2023

Migrants.

Among the many problems afflicting Guatemala, there is certainly also the migratory phenomenon. In fact, Guatemala, in…

01 Apr 2023, Dossier April 2023

Economic and Social Crisis.

Today, Guatemala continues to deal with a highly precarious social situation that places the country in…

01 Apr 2023, Dossier April 2023

How Climate Change Affects Girls and Young Women.

Drought, floods, abnormal heat waves. Today we are faced with a climate crisis that is unprecedented…

01 Mar 2023, Dossier March 2023

Girls and Young Women. Broken Lives.

The waves break gently on the shore. The crystal-clear water glistens invitingly under the rays of…

01 Mar 2023, Dossier March 2023

Education for Girls. A Challenge to Learning Poverty.

Despite the extraordinary progress made in the last 25 years, there are still 129 million girls…

01 Mar 2023, Dossier March 2023

Precocious Marriages. Increasing Due to Crises.

The terrible drought which - for the third year in a row - plagues the Horn…

01 Mar 2023, Dossier March 2023

São Tomé and Príncipe. A Lost Paradise.

São Tomé and Príncipe, a former Portuguese colony, is among the smallest independent states in the…

01 Feb 2023, Dossier February 2023

The shadow of China.

The economy of São Tomè and Princìpe is poor. The main resources are linked to the…

01 Feb 2023, Dossier February 2023

The political and economic problems.

Having obtained independence from the mother country, the country was led for 16 years by a…

01 Feb 2023, Dossier February 2023

A long road to Independence.

The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were deserted until their discovery by Portuguese navigators. Even…

01 Feb 2023, Dossier February 2023

The Cities of Africa. Urban and Decolonial.

The key to understanding the growth of cities in the African continent. At a frenetic pace, Africa…

01 Jan 2023, Dossier January 2023

The Role of Secondary Cities. Trait d’union between development and…

Half of the African urban residents live in one of the more than 7,500 medium or…

01 Jan 2023, Dossier January 2023

Cities and New Models of Migration.

The economic or educational prospects offered by African cities are fundamental to the urban growth that…

01 Jan 2023, Dossier January 2023

Re-inventing Flexible Cities.

 The art of getting by with countless informal activities not only affects the economy or daily…

01 Jan 2023, Dossier January 2023

Danger of Jihadism.

The spread of terrorist actions across West Africa alarms the Ghanaian authorities. Experts argue that the…

01 Dec 2022, Dossier December 2022

Ghana. Uncertain Times.

Just a few years ago, Ghana was synonymous with development and stability. Today inflation, debt and…

01 Dec 2022, Dossier December 2022

Coexistence in respect and dialogue.

Interreligious dialogue is customary. Just like the comparison between the different ethnic components, also through institutional…

01 Dec 2022, Dossier December 2022

Catholic Church on the Synodal Way.

The Church, though still in its young age, is very dynamic, vibrant, and efficient. Two important…

01 Dec 2022, Dossier December 2022

Jamaica. ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’.

This year Jamaica is celebrating 60 years of independence from the United Kingdom. A country that…

01 Nov 2022, Dossier November 2022

In the Hands of Local Gangs.

Within Kingston, gangs involved in drug trafficking, extortion, robbery, and the exploitation of prostitution have their…

01 Nov 2022, Dossier November 2022

Reggae, a Jamaican soft power.

Jamaica is a Parliamentary democracy and, as a member of the Commonwealth, it is also a…

01 Nov 2022, Dossier November 2022

Political and social instability.

During the 60 years in which the country has made itself autonomous from the motherland, there…

01 Nov 2022, Dossier November 2022

Senegal. The Colours of the Pirogues.

The fishing sector is crucial both for socio-economic stability and for the food security of the…

01 Oct 2022, Dossier October 2022

Industrial-scale piracy.

Foreign industries of transformation of fresh fish into fish meal and oil for export to European,…

01 Oct 2022, Dossier October 2022

Ancient methods.

Madj lights the flashlight on his head, tying hooks and lures to the ends of the…

01 Oct 2022, Dossier October 2022

Setting Sail.

The sun is about to set behind the houses that, in the distance, appear on the…

01 Oct 2022, Dossier October 2022

The identity ‘card’.

The latest census of India, that of 2011, indicates that 79.9 per cent of Indians identify…

01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022

Socio-economic imbalances.

Unlike most countries with a medium or high level of development, India has a population that…

01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022

India. A Country in Transition.

With an evident crisis in the availability of widely distributed agricultural production from Ukraine as a…

01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022

The Path of Reforms.

A country like India that aspires, at least in Asia, to be the first competitor of…

01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022

New political openings.

Suriname is a unitary Republic with executive power vested in the President of the Republic, who…

01 Aug 2022, Dossier August 2022

Suriname. A Multi-coloured Country.

It is the smallest country in South America with a population of just over 600,000 inhabitants…

01 Aug 2022, Dossier August 2022

Ethnic Variety.

The period of Dutch colonization made the country one of the main crossroads of both the…

01 Aug 2022, Dossier August 2022

Immense Natural Resources.

Suriname is a country rich in natural resources in terms of biodiversity, fresh water, raw materials,…

01 Aug 2022, Dossier August 2022

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Dossier

Dossier articles from the past 3 months

The Catholic Church. The repression goes on.

A ferocious campaign against the Catholic Church. Priests imprisoned and tortured. Bishops, priests and religious expelled. Nationality revoked. Christian communities deprived of their popular devotions. On Sunday afternoon, our meeting place is the Plaza Inter shopping centre, in the food court near the Hugo Chávez roundabout, in the centre of Managua. I see him arrive,…

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Nicaragua. One big prison.

Seven years have passed since the protests against the regime. Assassinations, desaparecidos, incarcerations and deportations have marked the life of this country during those years. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship continues its repressive action undaunted. At the entrance to the habitation of Niquinohomo, a small village not far from Masaya, stands the statue of General Augusto César…

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Towards a “family dictatorship”.

Change of the constitution. The introduction of a co-presidency. Total control over legislative and judicial power. Establishing a voluntary police force as an auxiliary and support to the National Police. Towards a “family dictatorship”. On January 30, 2025, the National Assembly of Nicaragua approved a constitutional reform that significantly strengthened the power of President Daniel…

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An Unequal Economy.

Modest growth. A dramatic increase in remittances. Over a million people undernourished. Chinese domination. Political indoctrination in schools. The Oriental Market in the capital Managua is the largest market in Central America. A large labyrinth where you can find everything. In one of the shops I met Dona Elvira Arua Pimeda, she has been working…

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The Victory of Feudal Power.

In urban areas, no one opposed the changes, not even the mullahs of Kabul. But in the tribal areas, Amanullah’s measures, such as reducing the powers of religious judges, were seen as an existential threat. Rumours began to circulate that the king had converted to Catholicism, and photos of the French president kissing the queen’s…

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Afghan women today: invisible and imperceptible, but they still resist.

First, they were forced to cover themselves from head to toe, to see the world through a net. Then, they were banned from studying beyond the fifth grade, from working (even when they were their families’ sole breadwinners), from walking without a male guardian, and from going to gardens and gyms. They closed shelters for…

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Afghan Women. Resistance Beyond the Burqa.

Afghanistan may be the only country in the world where, over the last century, the struggles to give and take away women’s rights “have made and unmade kings and politicians.” We will retrace this historic path of struggle by Afghan women, who continue to inspire new generations. The story begins with Abdur Rahman Khan, who…

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Tarzi the revolutionary.

Mahmud Beg Tarzi, was the main figure responsible for the modernisation of Afghanistan in the first two decades of the 20th century. One of the exiles Habibullah welcomed was the writer, translator, and constitutionalist Mahmud Beg Tarzi, who had spent his youth in Damascus and would become the main figure responsible for modernizing Afghanistan in…

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The wheat market.

The price of wheat on the entire global market, like that of other cereals, has always been very low, undergoing little change over the decades. For the 2024 harvest, the prices of bread-making soft wheat stood at around €225/t, thus falling to a level around 8% lower than in 2023, when the product was traded…

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Major producers.

Due to its particular climatic conditions together with the know-how of European farmers and the means deployed by the CAP for over half a century, the European continent is a particularly favourable place for the cultivation of wheat, to which it allocates approximately 22 Mha, or 10% of the world total. In recent years, European…

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Towards self-sufficiency.

The Asia-Pacific region is emerging as a key region in the wheat market especially that of flour. This is also due to the change in the diet of its consumers, who have switched from rice to wheat products, and also due to the presence of fewer carbohydrates in this cereal compared to rice. They are…

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The Geopolitics of Wheat. Resources as a weapon.

Since ancient times, food resources have played a decisive role in political dynamics both internally and externally. They constitute a key element on which the development and stability of states depend, as well as, migratory flows and conflicts over the possession and/or use of land and water. These resources can also take on geopolitical connotations…

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Advocacy

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari. A Steward of the Marañón…

The river is sacred to the Kukama people, who believe that their ancestors reside on the river floor.  They are ready to protect the Marañón…

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Baobab

A Wise Grandmother.

Like the other farmers, Taro also grew rice, wheat, and vegetables, living in peace and contentment. However, things never remain the same. One time, there was no rainfall,…

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Youth & Mission

Comboni Youth Jubilee. To live is to hope.

From 24 to 27 July, hundreds of young people from the Comboni youth movements across Europe will gather in Milan, Verona, and Florence, Italy, in preparation…

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