Correspondences - Memorial tourism in Benin, reopening of terraces in Belgium and Olympic skateboarding

Our reports this week:

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investing heavily in the renovation of the port of Ouidah, which was one of the largest slave ports in West Africa.

Now a place of memory of slavery, but also of memorial tourism, it could become a financial windfall for this country which has few raw materials.

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, the Covid 19 has highlighted the weakness of the reception of the elderly.

In long-term reception centers, nearly 7 out of 10 people died during the first confinement, and not only from the coronavirus.

Some died of hunger, thirst, isolation and generally from a lack of care.

A scandal that shakes the country.

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, after seven months of closure, bars and restaurants can once again welcome the public on the terrace.

Decrease in contamination, progression of vaccination, two factors that allow us to hope for a return to normal. 

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, the French skateboard team trains for the first Olympic Games.

Created in the 1960s in California, long on the fringes, it is one of the five new disciplines introduced in Tokyo this summer.

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