Benin entrepreneur transforms plant waste into charcoal

Olarinde Ayanfeoluwa is a 22-year-old self-taught artist who makes unconventional portraits by scribbling on canvases in Nigeria.

Collapsed buildings, unexploded munitions in the streets, shell craters: the self-proclaimed capital of Nagorno-Karabakh is now disfigured and has been turned into a ghost town after days of shelling.

With restaurants and cafés closed due to the pandemic, an alternative is emerging among Brussels hoteliers: transforming bedrooms into private dining rooms, so guests can enjoy an evening "as if at a restaurant" but in compliance with the law.

In Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women produce mushrooms from corn and bean waste. The farming protects the women from going into the field, where danger lures.

Adunni Abdul says using charcoal and firewood causes her chest pain - but amid a price rises for liquified petroleum gas, she has little choice to go back to such fuels despite the environmental and health risks.