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Your morning cup of coffee could soon cost more, thanks to climate change, which is raising the heat on the production of the world’s most loved beverage. Increased episodes of high heat in top coffee-growing regions of the world are affecting the production of coffee, leading to low harvests and high prices for consumers. This […]

Vendredi, le parquet général a requis 20 ans de réclusion contre Brahim Chnina et Abdelhakim Sefrioui, auteurs d'une campagne de haine lancée avant l'assassinat de Samuel Paty, le 16 octobre 2020. Il a également requis 16 ans de réclusion pour "complicité d'assassinat" à l'encontre de deux proches du jihadiste tchétchène.

Le défenseur sénégalais Mamadou Sarr, âgé de 20 ans, aspire à une première titularisation en Premier League lors du match entre Chelsea et Arsenal, après une progression fulgurante sous la direction de Liam Rosenior.

L’acoziborole, un antiparasitaire administré en une seule prise, présente des résultats remarquables contre la trypanosomiase africaine, presque toujours mortelle sans traitement.

ENTWURF EINES BERICHTS über den Bericht 2025 der Kommission über Nordmazedonien
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Thomas Waitz

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When a mob of Hindutva goons descended on a Muslim shopkeeper, a young gym owner stepped forward to defend him.

ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 9 - 89 - Entwurf einer Stellungnahme Einrichtung von „Horizont Europa“, dem Rahmenprogramm für Forschung und Innovation, für den Zeitraum 2028-2034 sowie dessen Regeln für die Beteiligung und die Verbreitung der Ergebnisse und Aufhebung der Verordnung (EU) 2021/695
Ausschuss für Sicherheit und Verteidigung
Costas Mavrides

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Mamadou Ba, president and founder of Maison des Talibés, speaks to talibés in Saint-Louis, Senegal, at the opening ceremony of the organisation's centre on Jan. 1, 2026. Courtesy: Ramata Haidara

By Megan Fahrney
SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal, Feb 27 2026 (IPS)

When you walk through the streets of Senegal’s cities, you notice them almost immediately: young boys in worn clothes, clutching plastic cans or tin bowls, weaving between cars and pedestrians to ask for spare change or food. They are often barefoot, alone and hungry. These children are known as talibés.

Boys aged approximately 5-15, known as talibé children, reside in daaras, schools run by marabouts.

Human Rights Watch says many marabouts, “who serve as de facto guardians, conscientiously carry out the important tradition of providing young boys with a religious and moral education.”

However, many of the schools are unregulated.

“However, thousands of so-called teachers use religious education as a cover for economic exploitation of the children in their charge, with no fear of being investigated or prosecuted,” the report says. The talibés from these ‘schools’ spend much of their days begging for food on the streets and suffering a range of human rights abuses. They regularly experience beatings, inadequate food and medical care, and neglect.

Mamadou Ba, president and founder of Maison des Talibés, is striving to change the narrative. Ba created the organisation Maison des Talibés (“House of Talibés”) three years ago in Saint-Louis, Senegal, with the goal of empowering talibés, improving their living conditions, and teaching them skills to help them succeed in young adulthood.

“I want to improve talibés’ lives,” Ba said. “I’m trying to help them in the future when they grow up [to be] self-sufficient.”

Ba himself was a talibé as a child. A Senegal native, Ba was sent away to Daara at the age of seven in a city called Sokone. He said he remained there for eight years, enduring very tough conditions and was not fed by his marabout.

Once Ba aged out of the daara, he moved to Dakar and later Saint-Louis to be a marabout.

While in Saint-Louis, Ba began to devote his time to French and English study. He got involved with an international organisation that supported talibés but found their approach of simply donating food to the talibés was not going to cut it. Ba knew he needed to equip the children with skills to succeed in young adulthood after leaving the daara.

“They have one way out, which is becoming a marabout,” Ba said. “I don’t want them basically to have one choice, which is a Quranic teacher. I want them to have different choices, different options, [to become] whatever they want.”

Maison des Talibés began as a true grassroots effort. Ba formed relationships with local marabouts, gaining their trust and allowing him to enter the daaras to provide the talibés services. He reached out to his friend, Abib Fall, a doctor in the area, who agreed to provide medical care to talibés in his free time. Ba himself began teaching the children English, providing food and rehabilitating the daaras.

“It’s very fundamental to have a connection with the marabouts; otherwise, you cannot do this work,” Ba said. “I speak the language that they speak, so they listen to me more … I’m a former talibé, so I know them very well.”

Equipped with English language skills, Ba expanded the organisation by speaking with international visitors and businesses in Saint-Louis to request financial support and recruit volunteers.

“The objective is education and handcraft,” Ba said. “I know that if they have the education and the handcraft, they will be like me or better.”

“I know how you get them there, because I went through that and I experienced it,” Ba said.

A 2019 report by Human Rights Watch documented 16 talibé deaths from abuse and neglect and dozens of cases of beatings, neglect, sexual abuse and the chaining and imprisonment in daaras. An estimated 50,000 young boys live as talibés across Senegal, as of 2017.

Though families often send their children to live in daaras voluntarily, the system is widely considered to be trafficking. Many talibés in Senegal come from impoverished communities in Guinea-Bissau and other neighbouring countries.

Over the years, the daara system has evolved from what it once was. Historically, talibés resided predominantly in rural environments, where they worked on farms in exchange for food or received donations from villagers. With urbanisation, the system has transformed into exploitation and begging.

Ramata Haidara, an American Fulbright fellow in Saint-Louis, met Ba outside of a museum in the city. After learning about Maison des Talibés, Haidara immediately got involved as a volunteer English teacher.

Haidara said she has witnessed her students’ confidence grow over time.

“[We] show them that you deserve to have resources and an education and people who are kind to you,” Haidara said.

On January 1, 2026, Maison des Talibés unveiled its first physical building to support talibés by giving them a safe space outside of the daara to learn skills, attend classes, eat, shower and receive medical care.

The centre’s opening ceremony drew over 100 talibés. Ba said the organisation serves many more than that in total, and that he hopes to expand its reach in the future.

Cheikh Tidiane Diallo, a perfume and soap maker living in Morocco, was one of Maison des Talibés’ first students. Diallo said he credits Ba and the organisation with giving him the skills and connections to move to Morocco and pursue his career.

“He has a good heart,” Diallo said of Ba. “He has never given up. I really appreciate that passion from him.”

Ba said he sees his younger self in the talibés he serves and is inspired by them just as they are inspired by him.

“This is a place where they can laugh, a place where they can eat, a place where they can feel okay,” Ba said. “This is our home.”

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BERICHT über den Abbau von Hindernissen für den Binnenmarkt für Verteidigung
Ausschuss für Sicherheit und Verteidigung
Tobias Cremer

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Alors que la rénovation urbaine bat son plein partout en France, le très dense quartier des Malassis, à Bagnolet, se métamorphose chaque jour un peu plus. Une période de renouveau chargée d'émotions pour les habitants. Noémie Rosenblatt, comédienne, a voulu mettre en scène ce grand chambardement, parfois moment de tension. L’équipe de Pas 2 Quartier s’est rendue sur place.

Pakistan spricht im Dauerkonflikt mit Afghanistan von "Krieg". Islamabad versuche, den "Druck auf Regierung in Kabul zu erhöhen", sagt Christian Wagner bei ZDFheute live.

Chaque année, dans le monde, deux millions de personnes sont envenimées par des morsures de serpents. 130 000 d’entre elles en meurent. Pourtant ces décès sont évitables : mesures de prévention, premiers soins, politiques publiques de mise à disposition d'anti-venins... Pour l'Organisation mondiale de la santé, cette maladie tropicale est négligée et il faudrait y accorder plus d'attention. Reportage de notre correspondant au Kenya, où la guerre contre les morsures de serpent est déclarée.

AMENDMENTS 1 - 243 - Draft report Recommendation for the Council, for the Commission and for the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Andrey Kovatchev

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

AMENDMENTS 1 - 243 - Draft report Recommendation for the Council, for the Commission and for the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Andrey Kovatchev

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Le ministère de la Santé a confirmé vendredi l'identification de la toxine céréulide chez un bébé hospitalisé après avoir consommé un lait contaminé. L'affaire des laits infantiles a débuté en décembre, avec d'abord le rappel par Nestlé de dizaines de lots dans une soixantaine de pays à cause de la présence potentielle de cette toxine pouvant provoquer des vomissements dangereux.

Alors que la Hongrie avait bloqué l’adoption de nouvelles sanctions contre la Russie par l’Union européenne, le Premier ministre pro-russe de Viktor Orban semble faire volte-face et adoucit sa position. Jeudi 26 février, il a adressé une lettre au Conseil européen en proposant d’envoyer une mission d’experts pour évaluer « l’oléoduc de l’amitié », liant la Russie à l’UE en passant par l’Ukraine et que Budapest veut réactiver. Car le pays est très dépendant du brut russe de Sibérie et son gouvernement mène une campagne contre Kiev.

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response, and repealing Decision No 1313/2013/EU (Union Civil Protection Mechanism)
Committee on Security and Defence
Reinis Pozņaks

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response, and repealing Decision No 1313/2013/EU (Union Civil Protection Mechanism)
Committee on Security and Defence
Reinis Pozņaks

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

La politique de retrait prônée par le président des États-Unis et ses changements d'opinion constants poussent les autres puissances à adopter de nouvelles approches.