Niger Juillet 2016. With eight children by woman, Nigeria has the world's highest natality birthrate and is the 6th poorest country in the world. The division of farmlands between the members of always growing up families and the depletion of...
In Ghana, 2016. Michaël Zumstein met the casting of the webserie « An African City ». He followed them in Accra, the capital, in a discovery of their everyday life.
Niger 2015.In Niger, six young students involved in the issue of global warming have gone into an innovative cartographic project. They travel all across the country, reporting any visible effect of climate change. Their work bring a priceless...
Mali 2015.Over the last two decades, cellphones have ushered in a communications revolution in Africa. The entire country of Mali, for example, has just 120,000 landlines to serve a population of 15 million. But as of 2012 there were enough...
Central African Republic 2014 In Central African Republic, torn appart by the conflict beetween Christians and Muslims, diamonds production decreased sightly. Dispite the dissolution of the Seleka, a muslim coalition opposed to the former president François Bozizé, mining still...
Central African Republic 2014 Central African Republic is currently going through the most acute security and humanitarian crisis of its history since its independence in 1960. The country is facing a wave of murders, forced exodus and unprecedented lootings. War crimes are...
Central African Republic 2013 On the 5th of December 2013, Christian anti-Balaka militiamen came to Bangui to take control over the capital and overthrow transitional President Michel Djotodia, who had come to power in March 2013, after the Seleka's military coup. This attack, and...
Central African Republic 2013 The political crisis in Central African Republic, which occurred further to the overthrow of François Bozizé's regime by the Seleka rebels in March 2013, has turned into a civil war as tensions between Christians and Muslim communities have thrown the...
MALI 2012 In January 2013, Mali has been struggling for over a year with a situation close to a state of civil war. The North of the country, under the rules of the Islamists groups Aqmi (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and Ansar Dine, has become a geopolitical issue giving a new...
CHAD 2012 In the town on Mongo, located 400km east of N'Djamena in the Guera region, the Catholic church is launching the construction of a new cathedral, the final step in order to be elevated to the rank of diocese. In a country were the majority is Muslim, the many Catholics...
MALI 2012 To recover North-Mali which is currently under Islamist's control, militia groups are being put together in Mopti. With the help of the NLF: National Liberation Frontand the Ganda Izo (The Sons of Soil), this militia is under the orders of Moussa Traoré (former...
NIGER 2012 Today in Niger, 400.000 children are at risk of dying from Malnutrition. Endemic poverty, an out of control population growth and severe draught are affecting this sub-Saharan country, on the verge of a major health catastrophe. Also this precarious situation is made...
LIBERIA 2012 As Charles Taylor awaits sentencing, his ex-wife and Liberia are quietly moving on. Sen. Jewel Howard Taylor pulled open her desk drawer and carefully turned the thin pages of her Bible to Psalm 25, of David, who battled and defeated the giant Goliath. The Bible...
SENEGAL 2012 In Senegal the albino population has had the proof that their fight against discrimination is far from being over. Carrying on their shoulder the double burden of being different and having a higher predisposition for skin cancer, the albinos from Senegal also...
SENEGAL 2012 The Mouride Brotherhood, whose spiritual centre is in the city of Touba, 200 kilometres from Dakar, is the most powerful of these religious groups. Groundnuts production and trade are under its control and the brotherhood claims four millions disciples, including...
SENEGAL 2012 On this Senegalese territory stuck between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, several factions have been leading, over the course of 30 years, a guerilla for independence. A matter that president Macky Sall, intends to resolve urgently.
