International report

In the German capital an exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau museum focuses on art looted under Nazi rule in Germany.

Nicaragua's opposition has been asking for President Daniel Ortega to step down for more than six months now. But the repression against it has been brutal.

Opponents to the regime have been arrested, jailed, injured and even killed, Amnesty International has reported.

One sector has stood by them all along: the Church. Its has had a key role in preventing more captures and deaths. Alix Hardy met with its members in Managua, Nicaragua in this third report in four-part series.

In Nicaragua human rights organisations have grown increasingly concerned about the government’s crackdown on protesters. More than 320 people have been killed in more than six months of unrest.

Daniel Ortega’s government has also been seeking to arrest anyone who played a role in the uprising against him.

Over 500 opponents are currently in jail and many political dissidents have had to go into hiding to avoid being arrested and tried.

Alix Hardy reports in this final report in a four-part series.

Nicaragua has been in crisis for more than six months now. A large part of the population wants the president gone. Some 320 people have been killed in the unrest and more than 40,000 have fled the country.

So far President Daniel Ortega and his wife have remained deaf to the demand for early elections.

Once admired revolutionaries with the Sandanista movement during the 1980s, they are now appear more and more isolated in their quest to stay in power.

Alix Hardy has this second report in a series of four from Managua.

In Nicaragua, more than 300 people have been killed in the past six months as  President Daniel Ortega continues his crackdown on protests demanding his removal. In the capital Managua, streets remain deserted as anti-regime protests have been declared illegal with thousands of opponents behind bars. RFI's Alix Hardy reports in a four-part series.

In the German capital an exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau museum focuses on art looted under Nazi rule in Germany.

Around 200 pieces are on display in order to bring to light the role art professionals had in the Europe-wide theft of cultural assets during the Nazi regime.

Our correspondent in Berlin, Emmanuelle Chaze, has this report for us.

Voodoo or Juju, the belief in traditional magical powers, is widely practiced in Africa and other parts of the world inhabited by people of African descent. Some Africa communities like the Ogu people, who inhabit parts of the coastal areas of the West African States of Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana, have a justice and police system based on voodoo.

Slovenia Oldest Vine located in the heart of the old city centre of Maribor is the world’s oldest vine dating back to the 16th century. This plant still produces grapes that are used to make one of the world’s rarest wine. RFI’s Dhananjay Khadilkar reports from Maribor.

In the northern Syrian city of Kobane, Kurds make up the majority of the population. In 2015, when the city was almost surrounded by the Islamic State armed group, most of the population fled to the Turkish border. Today, three years on, many families have come back to Kobane. But for Kobane's women, and especially the youth, has life returned to normal? Filip Warwick tries to answer that question in this final report of a five-part series.

Mali made the news a few weeks ago with its presidential elections. But it has an unofficial ambassador on the rise, singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara, who is currently touring the world. Our correspondent in Germany, Emmanuelle Chaze, met her after her Berlin performance, and tells us more about Fatoumara’s music and fight for social justice.