| Algeria protests: Finding a voice, youth seek more than token change Posted: 15 Mar 2019 01:10 PM PDT ![Algeria protests: Finding a voice, youth seek more than token change]( "Algeria protests: Finding a voice, youth seek more than token change") Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was an independence war fighter who drove out the occupying French, built a prosperous economy, ended a decade-old civil war that killed scores of thousands in the 1990s, and healed a nation.
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| A fitting response to the Christchurch killings Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:11 PM PDT ![A fitting response to the Christchurch killings]( "A fitting response to the Christchurch killings") Just hours after a gunman in New Zealand killed dozens of Muslims attending prayers at a mosque, close to a thousand people in Australia responded by going to Lakemba Mosque in Sydney. Because the attacker is Australian, both Muslims and non-Muslims felt a duty to gather in interfaith unity. In Canada and Europe, many people also went to local mosques on Friday to offer special prayers on behalf of the victims and their families in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
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| 'We built this from nothing': A country's bid for homegrown mental-health care Posted: 15 Mar 2019 07:30 AM PDT !['We built this from nothing': A country's bid for homegrown mental-health care]( "'We built this from nothing': A country's bid for homegrown mental-health care") Dr. Sylvain Gomossa looks at the three students in front of him, curious how they'll react to what he is about to say. The students quietly trail the psychologist, jotting down notes in battered notebooks as he leads them through this ramshackle collection of buildings: the only specialized psychiatric and mental-health ward in the Central African Republic. The students take it all in with wide eyes.
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| Points of Progress: Fair trade coffee thanks to blockchain, and more Posted: 15 Mar 2019 03:00 AM PDT ![Points of Progress: Fair trade coffee thanks to blockchain, and more]( "Points of Progress: Fair trade coffee thanks to blockchain, and more") A coffee roastery is using blockchain to track its bean supply and help farmers keep profits.The Moyee brand assigns its coffee farmers digital IDs, which allows buyers to track where their coffee is from and how much the farmers were paid for it via blockchain – a permanent digital record. Using blockchain to track produce may soon be applied similarly in Caribbean nations, where many fruits are grown. Scientists found a new way to pull CO2 from the air and turn it into solid coal. In a report, an international team of scientists based in Australia detailed a groundbreaking carbon sequestration method.
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