Author: Ewang Johnson
On the occasion of its 25th year, the Gates Foundation today made a new commitment to accelerate its mission to help all people live healthy, productive lives by spending $200 billion over the next 20 years. The decision marks a major acceleration in the foundation’s work and sets a new date of 2045 to sunset its operations. The historic announcement, which represents the largest philanthropic commitment in modern history, was shared in a post by foundation Chair Bill Gates. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people. That is…
The international community must stop the flow of weapons to the parties in Sudan’s war, says former UN under-secretary-general Mongi Hamad. The Sudanese crisis, or rather the tragedy of a geographically strategic country, corroborates the idea that external interventions can destroy a state in a matter of weeks, displace populations, cause all kinds of abuses, massacres, rapes, and popular retribution, as well as unbearable human tragedies such as the famine cruelly spreading among millions of refugees. The civil war, which has lasted for more than two years amid a kind of shameless indifference, must urgently challenge us. The fighting between the…
In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with Franco-Cameroonian musician James BKS. He’s gone from producing beats for some of the biggest stars like Snoop Dogg and will.i.am, to carving out a name for himself as a performer. Music is in his blood, with his father being the late Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango, and James has continued his legacy by embracing his African musical roots. He’s back with the EP “See Us Rise”, a deeply personal and introspective record. Source link
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)In 1956, Royal Navy Commander “Buster” Crabb disappeared in murky circumstances during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, the BBC’s Michael Buchanan read the newly declassified files that detailed Crabb’s unofficial secret mission – and how the government tried to cover it up.It was on 9 May 1956, 69 years ago this week, that UK Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden finally succumbed to press pressure and international embarrassment, and ordered an enquiry into the mysterious disappearance of Royal Navy diver Commander Lionel “Buster” Crabb.The decorated frogman had vanished during a goodwill…
The Invest in African Energy (IAE) 2025 Forum is pleased to announce that Zimbabwe’s Minister of Energy and Power Development, July Moyo, will deliver a keynote address at the event in Paris next month, highlighting national energy priorities and emerging investment opportunities. His participation marks a strategic moment for Zimbabwe as the country positions its […] Source link
Film critic Ben Croll speaks to Eve Jackson about the latest film releases, including Cillian Murphy in his first starring role since winning the Oscar for “Oppenheimer”. They also discuss Canada’s master of the macabre, David Cronenberg’s deeply personal work “The Shrouds”, and the dark comedy “Rumours”, which imagines a G7 summit run amok starring Cate Blanchett. The show concludes with Claude Lelouch’s “Un homme et une femme”. The 1966 film’s return to theatres right before the Cannes Film Festival gives it a very particular honour, making it the official poster for the event which starts next week. Source link
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today.Eighty years after VE Day, enthusiasm for the World War Two novel remains undimmed.Demand for tales of wartime Europe, always healthy, has swelled notably since the publication of Anthony Doerr’s lyrical All the Light We Cannot See, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and subsequently adapted into a Netflix series. Love stories, battle stories, codebreaker stories, resistance stories, concentration camp stories – all have landed on bestseller lists around the world.And while many novelists in this…
Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vicini, Ambassador of Sweden to the Republic of Seychelles, paid a farewell courtesy call on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House today, marking the official end of her four-year diplomatic assignment. Ambassador Vicini was accompanied by Ms. Camilla Prawitz and Ms. Mutheu Mbondo from the Swedish Embassy. During the meeting, she […] Source link
In this edition of arts24, we’re focusing on the video game of the year and it’s proudly, unmistakably French. “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”, created by a small studio in Montpellier, is taking the world by storm. With its Belle Époque-inspired world, haunting story and hybrid gameplay, it sold more than a million copies in just three days and even earned praise from President Emmanuel Macron. One of the minds behind the phenomenon, the co-director and co-founder of Sandfall Interactive, François Meurisse joins Eve Jackson to talk about the game’s success. Also on the show: the best looks from Monday night’s…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more hair-raising exploits on screen – sometimes with few safety measures.One of modern Hollywood’s great leading men, Tom Cruise, is to receive a fellowship from the British Film Institute this May, alongside a season celebrating his career. Cruise is described by the institution as a “daredevil action star”, and someone with a “dedication to reinventing the cinema spectacle” – traits exemplified most of all by his role in the Mission: Impossible series, the latest of which, Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final…