Lalla Tahara a disabled woman never stops fighting. All her life, she has been adamant to prove that handicap should not be ground for exclusion in the Timbuktu society where to be disabled is akin to divine curse.

«Sometimes you have to travel far before you realise the wealth of your history and culture and see the values of things close to you». This is exactly what happened to Halim Sba’i, president of the organisation «Zaïla» in Sahara M’hamid El Ghizlane, south east of Morocco.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (HCR) in Mauritania is criticised by some of Camp M’berra’s refugees from North Mali. They accuse HCR of having excluded them from the lists which enable access to food aid distributed once a month. Refugees claim that in so doing, one seeks to incite them to return to their country, after three years of exile.