Sierra Leone and the rise of cocaine trafficking in West Africa
In recent years, West Africa has gone from being a peripheral region on drug trafficking routes to becoming a strategic axis within the global cocaine
Education in the middle of war
Comboni College of Science and Technology in Khartoum (Sudan). By P. Jorge Carlos Naranjo Alcaiderector of the CCST Comboni College is an educational institution created
Return
Lekatoo has returned to Maralal, his village, in Samburu territory. Years ago, when he was younger, he had to leave those lands following a dream.
A global pattern
In 2025, Brazil was the scene of the largest police operation against drug trafficking in peripheral neighborhoods of the country. Operation Containment deployed 2,500 Rio
Mutations
2025 ended with a resurgence of jihadist violence in West Africa and a serious deterioration in security. The beginning of 2026 confirms this trend and
Russia extends its influence in Africa among churches, scholarships and mercenaries
In a discreet Orthodox chapel used by the Russian community in Bamako, a priest celebrates the liturgy before a slowly growing congregation. A few years
Gotele
At the end of the 90s and early 2000s, the actor Carlos Iglesias (Madrid, 1955) played Benito Lopera Perrote, a foul-mouthed bricklayer prone to laziness
Harnereros
On August 21, 1994, my grandmother Tomasa gave me the Dictionary of the Spanish Language. Thousands of words packed into a classic and recognizable edition.
What is it about?
Between surprise, disbelief and indignation, the world witnessed the kidnapping, by the United States, of Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, in one of his residences
West Africa and the Sahel face the risk of a major food crisis
At the beginning of 2026, West Africa and the Sahel will once again be at the center of international humanitarian alerts. According to the FAO,