Frances public radio and television are accused of overspending, misspending, favoritism and left-wing political bias, according to a parliamentary report released this week. The post French public media is being targeted by the far-right appeared first on The World from PRX.

Pakistan is in the middle of a solar power revolution. Over the past five years, the percentage of electricity generated from solar panels jumped from 2% to nearly 25%. Almost all of that growth has been driven by individuals buying their own solar panels, removing their homes or businesses from the centralized grid and generating electricity for ...

Older generations are retiring from their roles as shepherds in Spain, while young people no longer want to take up the profession. Now, a new school is training newly arrived immigrants mostly from African countries who already have experience working with livestock to take on the jobs. The post Spain taps into immigrant and refugee communities to fill ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a mission: Travel across the world in the way the earliest humans out of Africa did. Lately, he's been hiking and paddling along Alaska's southern coast. He joins Host Marco Werman to share what he's learned about how coastal ecosystems helped our ancestors thrive as they populated the planet. The post ...

Sudans civil war has triggered what many describe as the worlds largest humanitarian disaster. Its a crisis that remains dramatically underreported, according to journalist Ann Curry. She won an Emmy for her coverage of the Darfur genocide in 2007 and recently talked with refugees fleeing into South Sudan. She tells The Worlds Host Carolyn Beeler that while ...

As tensions over immigration reach a crisis point in South Africa, the Nigerian government has even offered to repatriate its citizens. The World's Host Marco Werman speaks with professor Sethulego Matebesi about the growing protests and violence. The post Anti-immigrant sentiment rises in South Africa appeared first on The World from PRX.

DWReporter Souwie Buis concludes that women have been a major part of the process for hundreds of thousands of migrants in Spain seeking legal status through a new amnesty measure. The post Are women behind the move in Spain to legalize undocumented immigrants? appeared first on The World from PRX.