diff --git a/Messages.sh b/Messages.sh
index df79880..61e8602 100644
--- a/Messages.sh
+++ b/Messages.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env bash
 pybabel extract --add-comments=notes -F babel.cfg -o $podir/gcompris-net.pot .
+python3 ./tools/convertLastNewsToPo.py && msgcat $podir/gcompris-net.pot gcompris-news.pot > $podir/gcompris-merged.pot && mv gcompris-merged.pot gcompris-net.pot && rm gcompris-news.pot
diff --git a/tools/convertLastNewsToPo.py b/tools/convertLastNewsToPo.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2ba52ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/convertLastNewsToPo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import os
+import re
+import polib
+import sys
+
+newsCount = -1
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    newsCount = -int(sys.argv[1])
+print("Fetching last", -newsCount, "news")
+
+# get all the news in news folder and only get the last N ones that are not translated
+lastNews = [news for news in sorted(os.listdir("news")) if not "-" in news and "html" in news][newsCount:]
+
+potFile = polib.pofile('', encoding="utf-8")
+potFile.metadata = {
+    'Project-Id-Version': '1.0',
+    'Report-Msgid-Bugs-To': 'gcompris-devel@kde.org',
+    'MIME-Version': '1.0',
+    'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
+    'Content-Transfer-Encoding': '8bit',
+}
+
+for newsFileName in lastNews:
+    print(newsFileName)
+    file = open("news/"+newsFileName, encoding='utf-8')
+    fileContent = file.readlines()
+    newsText = []
+    for line in fileContent:
+        if 'set title' in line:
+            newsTitle = re.search("\'(.+?)\'", line).group(1)
+        if not "{%" in line: # remove jinja2 expressions
+            newsText.append(line)
+    titleEntry = polib.POEntry(msgid=polib.escape(newsTitle), tcomment='news title', msgctxt=newsFileName)
+    potFile.append(titleEntry)
+
+    text = ''.join(newsText)
+    contextEntry = polib.POEntry(msgid=polib.escape(text), tcomment='news text', msgctxt=newsFileName)
+    potFile.append(contextEntry)
+
+# saving the created po file
+potFile.save('gcompris-news.pot')
diff --git a/tools/convertPoToNews.py b/tools/convertPoToNews.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1ab79fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/convertPoToNews.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import os
+import re
+import polib
+import sys
+import os.path
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+    print('Usage : python3 convertPoToNews.py locale file.po.')
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+locale = sys.argv[1]
+poFile = polib.pofile(sys.argv[2], encoding="utf-8")
+
+news = {}
+
+for entry in poFile:
+    filename = entry.msgctxt
+    if not filename or not filename.find('.html'):
+        continue
+    index = filename.find('.html')
+    filename = "news/" + filename[:index] + '-' + locale + filename[index:]
+
+    if os.path.isfile(filename):
+        print(filename + " already exists, we skip it")
+        continue
+
+    context = entry.tcomment
+
+    currentNews = {}
+    if news.get(filename):
+        currentNews = news.get(filename)
+
+    if "title" in context:
+        currentNews['title'] = entry.msgstr
+        currentNews['header'] = "{% extends \"template/onenews.html\" %}\n" \
+                                "{% set title = '" + entry.msgstr + "' %}\n" \
+                                "{% set withlongcontent = 0 %}\n" \
+                                "{% block content %} \n"
+    else:
+        currentNews["newsContent"] = polib.unescape(entry.msgstr)
+
+    news[filename] = currentNews
+
+FOOTER = "{% endblock %}"
+for currentNews in news:
+    if news[currentNews]['title'] == "" or news[currentNews]['newsContent'] == "":
+        print("Skip news", currentNews)
+        continue
+    
+    print("Creating", currentNews)
+    file = open(currentNews, "w", encoding="utf-8")
+    file.write(news[currentNews]['header'])
+    file.write(news[currentNews]['newsContent'])
+    file.write(FOOTER+"\n")