International report

As South Africans gear up to celebrate centenary celebrations in honour of the late Nelson Mandela, the French Metis Festival has been giving a platform to South African artists, like renowned jazz singer Thandiswa Mazwai. The 42-year-old singing sensation, renowned for her funky hair partly shaved on both sides and braids, sat down to talk to our correspondent Esther Thwadi-Yimbu about her latest album called Belede.

As South Africans gear up to celebrate centenary celebrations in honour of the late Nelson Mandela, the French Metis Festival has been giving a platform to South African artists, like renowned jazz singer Thandiswa Mazwai. The 42-year-old singing sensation, renowned for her funky hair partly shaved on both sides and braids, sat down to talk to our correspondent Esther Thwadi-Yimbu about her latest album called Belede.

Turkey’s currency has witnessed wild gyrations in the last week or so. At one point, Dorian Jones reports, the lira reached low for the year, falling 5% in one day as financial markets got scared following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attack on international investors. But there could also be electoral implicaitons too.

The holy month of Ramadan is a very busy time but also expensive time for Muslims across Senegal especially in the capital Dakar. During this time, the price of essential commodities often shoots up forcing many families to storm local markets and super markets to fill their Ramadan baskets. Alpha Jallow reports from Dakar.

2018 marks the year of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of United Nations. On this occasion, a German engineer of Iranian decent, Sanaz Razani, traveled through Latin America- beginning in Nicaragua and ending in Colombia - running workshops in high schools and colleges in order to raise awareness and educate the young people about this topic.

Sanaz Razani spent time with the children to explain to them the importance of the 30 articles of human rights which are co-signed by the majority of the countries in the world. After every workshop, the pupils were invited to draw their own interpretation of the human right.

All the collected drawings will be presented during an exhibition in Berlin.

Najet Benrabaa attended several workshops with Colombian children.

Scandals, education, and generational divides are changing the way some South Koreans look at religion.

Recent census data indicates that this country, which was once home to a fervent Protestant population, is becoming less and less religious – and the amount of "non-believers" is at an all-time high.

Correspondent Ryan Thompson reports from Seoul.

Millions of Syrians have fled their country since the beginning of the civil war, in 2011. Most chose to settle in Europe or in neighbouring countries. But some opted to go even further, acording to Aude Villiers-Moriamé. Such is the case for a small Syrian community that currently lives in San Luis, deep in the heartland of Argentina.

In some rural communities in Cameroon, poverty and cultural beliefs can make it difficult for women and girls to access sanitary pads. As part of a sustainable response to the challenge, a project for the production of biodegradable sanitary pads from agricultural waste has kicked off in Bamenda. The pads are destined to serve those in the countryside and suburban areas. Correspondent Tebeck Alphonse observed the production of Kuja Eco-Pads in the rural community  of Mendakwe, about  a  15-minute drive from Bamenda. He  has this report.

Thirty-six million Colombians who are eligible to vote will head to the ballot box on Sunday to elect their next president. hese are the first presidential elections since the historic peace deal with the FARC. With the future of the peace deal at stake, it is one of the most pivotal elections in Colombia's history. Fittingly, it has divided the electorate more than any other election in decades, as centre-ground candidates are pushed aside. Emily Wright has this report from the capital Bogotá.

Environmental conservationists in Coastal Kenya have taken new steps to preserve the endangered mangrove forests along the Indian Ocean, with the aim of preserving better environment and fight climatic change patterns. Through different projects aimed at conserving mangrove forests, communities around the coastal regions have benefitted from different programs funded by donors. Correspondent Joseph Jira has this report.