The Sahrawi people living in the Tindouf camps of southwest Algeria are facing their worst nutrition crisis since 2010. The Almasar Library Centre in Smara camp started a seed bank, giving families seedlings and training them to create home gardens.

Some food for thought, and little else

As Sahrawi hunger grows and their cause shrinks, a library tries to lend more than books.

Andabluesian: An elder descends through the distinctive alleys of the Medina of the northwestern Moroccan city of Chefchaouen, where the blue hues of its buildings are complemented by ornate mosaics. Photo: Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP

The ylang-ylang trade sustains about 10,000 producers in Comoros, which is significant in a country with a population of less than a million. But it also drives deforestation.

The fading forests of sensual ylang-ylang

The ylang-ylang trade sustains about 10,000 producers in Comoros, which is significant in a country with a population of less than a million. But i...

The war in Sudan is often reduced to numbers – 12-million people displaced – or shorthand – “two generals fighting for power”. Then there are the labels – “forgotten”, “nihilistic”, and “war about nothing”. This framing oversimplifies the actors at its centre and erases the people in its path. In North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher , residents who are organising to survive an ongoing 14-month RSF siege defy such flattening.

Sudan: Us vs them – in a good way

‘Stay with Gisma’ is one woman’s attempt to alleviate famine.