The economic “fabric” of Senegalese women
Training will start in a few days. The Senegalese artisans of Tambacounda are about to launch a project to produce wooden weaving looms. This woodworking activity is the first step of a project which aims to develop a new economic activity for the women of the region - weaving. As Makhtar Anta Diop of the association La Kora PRD says, “It is necessary to diversify economic activities”.

South Africa: blocking the way to privatisations
On 3rd October last, hundreds of residents from Orange Farm, a township about sixty km south of Johannesburg, blocked the major access road to the capital in order to make their point. Armed with slogans such as “No peace without development” or “No liberty without access to basic services”, they barred the highway for several hours to force the government to keep its promises.

Rwanda - an exhibition directs children along the way of peace
“Peace, what does it mean for you?” asks Gaspard, compère of the game-exhibition, Le sentier de la paix. For Kalisa, a young boy from the village of Nyanza, “Peace, is when I‘ve eaten, when I’m not ill, when I go to school”, but for Concessa, a schoolgirl from the town of Butare, “Peace is when we are safe”.

Malian people mobilized to build an international conference village
Associating the local population to Nyeleni 2007, the first world Forum on food sovereignty which will be held from 23rd to 27th February, 2007, in Mali, is one of the targets set by the organisers. This is a large-scale project – the construction of an entire conference village able to host 200 of the 600 participants.

In Congo (DRC), the constitutional state goes through all information means
Democratic Republic of Congo, June, 2006. In broad daylight, gunshots rang out and the body of a civilian on his way back from the office was found breathless twenty meters away from his house. He was the father of eight children. Despite the banality of this gratuitous crime, the organisation Heirs of Justice decided to act immediately. Through its newsletter Nota Bene that it publishes in the event of serious events, it immediately denounced this act.

South Africa: football helps the homeless to find a new direction
“In order to help to change the world and curb poverty, to help homeless people, the only thing we have to do is to take a ball and kick it”. That is why Mel Young, chairman of the international network of street press , created in 2003 the first Homeless Soccer World Cup. The fourth edition was held in Cap Town in South Africa, from 23rd to 30th September, 2006.

Ivory Coast: Gbahi Kouakou, from the ball to the quill
Gbahi Kouako is a young farmer from the Ivory Coast. He is the president of a platform of young farmers organised in co-operative groups, called “the agricultural youth of Beoumi”. He has just written a book, Le peuple n’aime pas le peuple.