Uganda medical cannabis paradise

Uganda's first cannabis farm opened in 2018. Growing this plant and consuming it is illegal in the country.

Currently, only one Israeli company has obtained authorization to produce it for export.

Twenty other companies have applied to the authorities, but without success.

The climate and location near the equator of the country favor the production of the plant.

The increase in global demand is a boon for the economy.

Béni Fadi's fight in songs to save the Ménik language

Music is the weapon used by singer Béni Fadi to try to save his mother tongue in Senegal.

Ménik, spoken by the Bedik ethnic group in the south-east, is one of the 25 recognized languages ​​of the country.

Today spoken by less than 4000 people, it is threatened with extinction.  

The new treasures of the necropolis of Saqqara unveiled in Egypt

250 sarcophagi and 150 bronze statues have been unearthed during recent excavations in the necropolis of Saqqara, located south of Cairo.

Among the discoveries: a statue of the famous architect Imhotep, also vizier and doctor.

It was he who built the step pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser, one of the oldest monuments on the surface of the globe.

Archaeologists have also found an intact papyrus.

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