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Damien Chazelle’s ‘The Eddy’: First look at Netflix series

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The Little Free Pantry Project

The Little Free Pantry utilizes a familiar, compelling concept to pique local interest in and action against local food insecurity. The Little Free Pantry offers a place around which neighbors might coalesce to meet neighborhood needs, whether for food or for fun.

The single Little Free Pantry is “little.” Lots of Little Free Pantries might be big. Duplicate freely.

http://www.littlefreepantry.org

The artist talks about his project spaces in London and Nigeria, and Africa’s untapped artistic potential

About eight years ago, I acquired some land in Lagos. Now we’re in the process of building a residency in Lekki, a rapidly developing area in the east of the city. It will house three artists at a time, with studio and gallery spaces on the ground floor, and residents’ bedrooms above.

The project also extends to a 30-acre farm in Ijebu, three hours northeast of Lagos. We’re in the process of landscaping and building a barn house and studios for artists, using sustainable materials such as mud, as well as a walled garden where people can learn about indigenous plants. Lagos is a very busy urban area with a lot of nightlife and music, so Ijebu will be for artists who need a more quiet space to produce work on a larger scale (there also will be a sculpture garden on the farm).

Life in Karamoja

Uganda’s Karamoja region is often portrayed as a rural frontier where life revolves around cattle, poverty and firearms. This photo story, a collaboration between reporters from Global Press Journal’s Uganda team, is the first in a series providing a glimpse of what life is really like in the northeast region of the country.

Photo top: Norah Panger, 19, carries water in a jerry can on her head in Kokoya village in Kotido district. Infrastructure is often absent or poorly-maintained in the Karamoja region, making sustainable access to goods and services a challenge for many people. Apophia Agiresaasi, GPJ Uganda

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The beauty of the Turkana community in Northern Kenya

A Korea-Zanzibar marine hatchery project aims to increase the production seed for aquaculture in East Africa in order to reduce food insecurity.

Plans to increase East Africa’s aquaculture production have received a major boost with the fast-tracking of a marine hatchery project that has been domiciled in the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean Island nation of Zanzibar.

The project, which is supported by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is being financed by both the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Zanzibar government, will in the coming years be expected to produce 10 million milkfish fingerlings, one million sea cucumber juveniles, and one million mud crablets annually. The project will be a major step toward addressing fish seed shortages not only in Zanzibar – which is part of Tanzania – but also other countries within the Lake Victoria basin, such as Kenya and Uganda.

According to the East African Community (EAC) – an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region – aquaculture production in the region remains low, contributing a mere 13.5 percent of Eastern Africa’s total fishery output.