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In early September US President Donald Trump announced the end of a program called Daca that his predecessor Barack Obama introduced, and which gave legal protection to children and teenagers who’d entered the United States illegally.

Many young people in the United States now don’t know what is going to happen to them. Because Obama’s programme started as a proposed law, known as the 'Dream Act', many of these young immigrants are known as 'Dreamers'.

Correspondent Ryan Thompson reports on how students in California, many of whom are 'dreamers', are reacting to the end of their legal protection.

In President Uhuru Kenyatta’s backyard in central Kenya, there is a lot of anger and disappointment since the verdict of the Supreme Court.

At the beginning of the month, the judges cancelled Uhuru Kenyatta’s reelection, because of "illegalities and irregularities" in the transmission of results.

For the opposition supporters, it is a huge victory, and a new hope to see their candidate, the veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, enter the presidency.

But in Gatundu, Uhuru Kenyatta’s hometown, the verdict was hard to accept as Laure Broulard reports.

Angela Ponce Romero, a Peruvian photographer from Lima, was presented with the International Committee of the Red Cross award at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism event in Perpignan this month.

The town of Ayacucho in Peru is at the forefront of seeking redress for forced disappearances, summary executions and abuse carried out during the civil war between the government and the Shining Path Guerilla in the 1980s.

Photographer Angela Ponce Romero tells the story of the townsfolk’s quest, and shows some of them reunited with the remains of their loved ones.

She told RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams that she plans to continue to try to help the victims obtain justice.

In Gaza the use of reconciliation ladies, who mediate family differences, regardless of religion, has spread in the past five years. Olfat Anbar, known as Um Rashid, (Mother of Rashid), is one. She has intervened in family situations, mainly divorces, which have risen across Gaza. Rami Almeghari has this report.

Three weeks ago Sierra Leone experienced catastrophic floods and mudslides which left some 1,000 people missing and dead. Last month’s mudslides were the worst natural disaster ever to hit Sierra Leone, and one of West Africa's worst tragedies in recent times, with deforestation one of the leading factors of flooding and mudslides.

Britain’s Sierra Leone diaspora is one of the largest in Europe.

In London, on the grounds of St. John’s Church in Stratford, the Sierra Leonean community gathered at a candlelight vigil to play music, remember the victims, and also to voice their anger at the underlying issue which created the disaster.

Filip Warwick attended the vigil in this second report on the diaspora’s activism in the UK.

Three weeks ago Sierra Leone’s catastrophic mudslides left some 1,000 people dead and missing. As the West African state grapples with the aftermath of the natural catastrophe, British Sierra Leoneans speak about their shock This is the first of a two part report by Filip Warwick.

There's a new way to fight urban air pollution using the process of photosynthesis. A display column installed in a busy part of Paris is converting the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into oxygen using microalgae. RFI's Dhananjay Khadilkar has this report.

L’Ecole des Sables is an internationally renowned dance school located some 50 kilometres outside Dakar.

The school has been a stepping stone and launched the career of hundreds of dancers over the last 2 decades.

But a shortfall in subsidies and funding could force it to close.

RFI's correspondent Emmanuelle Landais reports from Dakar.

A few years ago, someone counted how many Argentinian footballers were exported in the course of a year around the world -- the answer was 2,204. The most famous today is perhaps Lionel Messi, who plays for the Spanish club Barcelona.

And now Messi's club has started sending people in the other direction -- but in this case, coaches. Last month the team sent several coaches to train young players in Buenos Aires.

Correspondent Aude Villiers-Moriamé went along.

30 August is designated International Day of the Disappeared by the United Nations and other NGOs. 'Disappeared people' are people who are kidnapped or killed and whose families are not told what has happened to them.

This is the case for hundreds of people in the Ukraine, where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is trying to help people find out what's happened to their loved ones.

Filip Warwick reports from the city of Slovyansk, about 600 kilometres east of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where the ICRC is holding an exhibition of photos of people whose fate remains unknown.