Stories and News

Stories and News No. 1179   Kone Yossodjo is nineteen years old and today he runs. He runs for his country, the new one, Spain. Which is also new, at least faster, if not better, also thanks to him. Five years ago, Kone was forced to run not for something, but from. From his own country, the old one, the Ivory Coast. Which, past or present, will also be his land forever, perhaps poorer and less fast, but that’t not his fault. And when surviving involves running away from something, of which one is completely innocent, what will come out from that will be good, and so for everyone. Today he is a future star of athletics, in the largest and most populous nation of the Iberian peninsula. In the last year he has won 5 races out of 11 and is currently the absolute champion of the 5000 meters in Andalusia. The most surprisingly thing, not even a year after arriving in Spain, after being arrested and then transferred to a center for minors, he began to show all his talent, pr...

Stories and News No. 956 Hundreds of whales died during the night on the New Zealand’s shores after a mass stranding considered the largest in decades. The news is now viral around the world, images are everywhere and so the participation for the tragedy, while the staff of the Department of Conservation and about 500 volunteers are focused on how to save the survived whales until the next high tide. However, as always, not all react to the news the same way... At night, in a crowded room, somewhere in Africa... "Guys, I have a dream for you," says Babatunde , only five years old, but a lot of crazy ideas, rarely liked by his brothers. "Another one?" asks with sarcasm one of them, the closest among those who try to fall asleep. "Do you never get tired?" "This time is a good one." "So the last time," says another kid. "Then, fortunately, you did understand that building a submarine is science fiction." "N...

Stories and News No. 877 The clashes in Idomeni between police and refugees, including thousands of children , are becoming more violent. A story of monsters... Monsters. Real monsters, now, we are no more afraid of. We have learned to fear the others. The mistaken ones. Among the most improbable, I have to mention fires spitting dragons and blood donor mosquitoes . Tsunami that return villages and landscapes even refurbished. Earthquakes that offer just likable syncopation to those who have already danced enough, until now. Seas wrecking in the finally safe hearts of the children on the barges. Hunters who dismantle guns while reassembling animals, fragment after fragment, as a puzzle. But also ghosts who tell bedtime stories and a happy ending nightmares. Lethal injections of syrup for cough and cough syrups that treat vengeance sickness. Civilians who blow their life up in the public square. And some of the most extraordinary examples of the blind in this w...