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By our records, Yelibuya is probably the most-written-about town of the year. It really started more than a decade ago when a  picture of the island was posted on Panoramio, a photo-sharing website that was once used by Google to augment its Google Maps and Google Earth services. Apart from old British Admiralty nautical charts used by mariners, nothing much can be found on Yelibuya.  However, an article in Al Jazeera would change all that in August 2018 when it asked: " Why is this town in Sierra Leone sinking ?" Mara Kardas-Nelson, a journalist based in California, found that while there's no official government data in Sierra Leone on just how much the water is rising, the community estimates that the ocean has encroached inland at least 300 meters over the last 30 years. "As you can see, there is no method for protection. And it gets worse every year," one Yelibuya resident told Kardas-Nelson.  The same week, Face2Face Africa picked up the story u

Over the past 12 months, 272 million people, representing 3.5% of the world's population, have been driven to seek a better future elsewhere. According to the UNESCO Director-General,  some are seeking new economic and employment opportunities, while others, such as refugees and asylum seekers, have been overwhelmed by their situation, and are fleeing war, persecution, hunger or disease.  Click here to read the full message .