#mourning

#mourning

On 4 April, Amadou Bagayoko died suddenly, aged 70, in Bamako, Mali. The country's ministry of culture announced the news. Thousands attended the funeral, including former collaborators Manu Chao, Youssou N'Dour, MalianFrench rapper Mokobe and Congolese superstar Fally Ipupa, all paying homage to a man they knew as an uncle, a blues-guitar giant, a leader, a friend. I miss him so much, says Mariam Doumbia, his wife and musical partner of 44 years in the duo Amadou and Mariam.

A visual language of loss and tenderness, rooted in fragments of the remaining. The collection emerges from Michelle's deeply personal engagement with loss: Out of this grew garments that float between form and fragment. Elements of Traditional Polish dress are reimagined in delicate, hand-dyed fabrics, lace from home, and floral motifs as faded echoes of memory. Every material carries a story, every cut becomes a gesture of remembrance.

A UK family, including Domingos Serrano, his wife, Maria, and their twin sons, died in a car crash in southern Portugal while on holiday.

Razek Hassan al-Shalabi, Mohammad's father, sat among the town's inhabitants and relatives who came to mourn the young men at the school. "In the morning he told me he wanted to get married," he told DW. "He talked about starting a family, and now we bury him."

At least 120 people have been confirmed dead, with more than 160 still unaccounted for, making it the deadliest inland flooding in the US since 1976.

The bus, carrying over 30 passengers, tragically plunged off the Chiromawa Bridge in Kano, resulting in 22 athletes losing their lives after a national sports event.

Mazin jumps the action ahead three months, just as Ellie is getting out of the hospital, and long after she has gotten used to the idea of losing Joel.