September 3, 2023

For Nina*, dal (stewed lentils) tastes like defeat, preparing it feels like a lost cause. “Sometimes, there is ‘too much salt’, sometimes there is ‘no salt’, so much so that salting is very stressful for me,” she says, recounting the harsh words her cooking receives from her husband of 27 years. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/9/1/no-place-at-the-table-indian-women-food-and-eating

Violence broke out at an Eritrean festival in Edmonton last weekend following a similar clash in Toronto earlier this month. At both events, protesters from the Eritrean diaspora opposed events that billed themselves as celebrations of Eritrean culture. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/why-eritreans-in-canada-are-clashing-at-festivals-1.6944229

Adama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea. The brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast of West Africa, in a traditional Senegalese fishing canoe known as a pirogue. They were two of 39 passengers in total – all malnourished, many close to death. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66665299