Author: Ewang Johnson
ROME, Italy, 15 January 2026-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-As Sudan marks more than 1,000 days of brutal conflict this month, what has become the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis shows no signs of abating. This comes as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is struggling to keep life-saving emergency operations running.WFP has reached over 10 million of the most vulnerable women, men, and children in Sudan with emergency food, cash, and nutrition assistance since the resurgence of civil conflict in April 2023. The agency continues to deliver life-saving food aid to an average of four million people every month, including…
This week, Valérie Fayolle meets Pascal Obispo. His melodies have left their mark on the French musical landscape and he’s well known as an author, composer and performer. Now we meet his alter-ego, the painter! Pascal takes us to the Ange Basso gallery in Paris’s 6th arrondissement, where his artwork is on currently on show. We also discover Julie Depardieu’s one-woman show, “La Misérable” at the Marigny studio. Depardieu plays Juliette Drouet, the woman who was Victor Hugo’s mistress for almost 50 years. Source link
Washington, USA, 16 January 2026-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The World Bank approved $100 million in financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Benin promote access to finance and growth for women entrepreneurs in both the formal and informal sectors.The Women Entrepreneurship Development and Access to Finance Program (WEDAF) is a results-based program (PforR). It will support the government in setting up a Women’s Business Center and provide more than 10,000 women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with access to loans, training, mentoring, and career advice. This results-based program will competitively select a cohort of promising enterprises led or owned…
A new year, new seasons and no shortage of must-see television: January’s TV series show on arts24 dives into the biggest returns and boldest new chapters on the small screen, guided by arts24 TV critic Dheepthika Laurent and presented by Eve Jackson. We kick off in Paris with the world premiere of “Bridgerton” season four. This new chapter centres on Benedict Bridgerton, the family’s free-spirited second son, played by Luke Thompson, whose Cinderella-inspired romance with Sophie – portrayed by Australian actress Yerin Ha – opens up the “downstairs” world for the first time. Source link
Why black superstar Paul Robeson was dramatically cancelled Source link
Brazil’s cinematic renaissance can be attributed to cultural investment, international collaboration, and a country coming to terms with its authoritarian past. Nadia Massih welcomes France 24’s correspondent in Rio de Janeiro Jan Onoszko to offer us a world of perspective on Brazil’s 7th Art. The Secret Agent, winner of Two Golden Globes, touches on themes of dictatorship and paranoia, albeit in nuanced fashion, avoiding explicit historical references. Source link
The HBO banking drama has just kicked off its fourth series, amid serious hype and with a starrier cast than ever. It’s also taking its story – and characters – to chilling new places.Back in 2020, a new drama about a group of postgraduate bankers trying to make their way in London’s high-finance scene first aired on TV. At the time, the biggest story around the joint HBO and BBC series Industry was that the first episode was directed by Girls creator Lena Dunham.Initially, the show failed to make that much of a splash on either side of the pond,…
In December 2025, NGO WILDTRUST’s Samkelisiwe Danisa and Lauren van Nijkerk from South Africa, engaged with around 100 representatives of African states, relevant global, regional and subregional organisations and civil society, in Ethiopia at the Regional Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement Workshop. This gathering advanced growing engagement around the BBNJ Agreement, also known as the High Seas Treaty, which is designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems in international waters that lie beyond any country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The BBNJ Agreement provides the first comprehensive legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity for the two-thirds of…
Fifty years after her death, the legacy of Agatha Christie and her classic murder mystery stories is as strong as ever. Speaking to FRANCE 24, James Prichard, chairman and CEO of Agatha Christie Limited and the author’s great-grandson, says the books’ timelessness comes down to the fact that they are “essentially about people” and for better or worse, “we as people have not changed”. Source link
While Christie believed that a book could be polished off in three months, she said that plays were “better written quickly”. At the time of the BBC’s 1955 profile of Christie, three of her plays were running in London’s West End. The Mousetrap was already breaking box-office records, just three years after its premiere. The play began as a BBC radio drama titled Three Blind Mice, broadcast in 1947 as part of an evening of programmes celebrating Queen Mary’s 80th birthday.Writing plays was “much more fun than writing books”, according to Christie. She said: “You haven’t got to bother about…