International report

Paris’ Odeon European Theatre is one of the rare theatres in France with a repertoire featuring foreign productions with subtitles, films adapted for the stage and international directors.

Violent scenes have erupted on the small Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of refugees have amassed, arriving from the border with Turkey. More than 1,720 migrants have landed there and on the four other Aegean islands over the past week, adding to the 38,000 already crammed into overstretched refugee centres.

For decades, many young people in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa have been in trouble with the authorities for offences ranging from common crime to terrorism.That story is now changing, thanks to the arrival of new technology.

Nakuru is the largest town in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, located 170 kilometres northwest of the capital Nairobi.Tucked away on the outskirts of Nakuru, less than one kilometre from Lake Nakuru National Park, is the working space of SWAN-SUKEIA, a group of women who are part of the Lulu Works Trust.

An increasing number of Tunisian children and adolescents are taking their own lives. Suicides in the north African country tell a desperate story of the hardships Tunisian society is going through, whether financial, social, or psychological.

As governments worldwide shift to clean energy production in order to reduce emissions, ecological experts in Kenya are opposing the construction of a coal-burning electricity generation facility in the coastal region of Lamu County, which is a UNESCO World heritage site.

Liberia’s unprecedented shortage of petroleum products has resulted in long queues at petrol stations across the country. Some buyers have spent days taking turns to purchase the products in small quantities because of the high cost.

Nine years ago, the Arab Spring erupted in Tunisia, and then spread across much of the region. Nearly a decade on, many in Tunisia are waiting to see any real socio-economic developments, with a new government still in the making following October elections.

Following a decade of record-breaking temperatures worldwide, the global fight against climate change has taken on greater urgency. The UN Human Rights Council says severe weather is putting people with disabilities at greater risk. Correspondent Jason Strother traveled to Tacloban, the Philippine city destroyed by a super typhoon in 2013, and reports on how disabled residents have struggled in the wake of the disaster.

Legislative and municipal elections were held in Cameroon on Sunday 9 February. In some English-speaking communities, the elections were marked by a low turnout and sporadic gunshots.