Author: Ewang Johnson
Domitina Kahira, a resident of Biharamulo District in Tanzania’s north-eastern Kagera Region, is treading a difficult path to recovery after losing her husband to Marburg virus disease in early January 2025. Being a close contact of a person infected with the virus, she was admitted to a Marburg isolation centre for 21 days to monitor her health and avoid further possible transmission at home. Kahira was discharged and reunited with her family. But the grief from her husband’s death and the adjustment to life in the aftermath has taken a toll on her mental health. “I was worried about my…
Thierry de Montbrial is a French academic and geopolitical scientist. He is the founding president of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), a think tank he established in 1979. He is also a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He has published L’Ère des affrontements: les grands tournants géopolitiques (The Age of Confrontation: Major Geopolitical Turning Points) with Dunod. He analyses the state of the world in the Trump era. A new generation is at the helm of IFRI. Is this a way of ensuring the sustainability of your think tank? I have created an institution…
Throughout December and January, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the last 12 months.For 2024, our favorite books focused on kids and tech, Christian artistry, small-town mysteries, cheerful apocalypses, manga creators, and more.The Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtOverprotection of children in the real world. Underprotection of children in the virtual world. These are the central claims of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: How the…
Critic Perrine Quennesson takes us through the latest releases in the world of French cinema, with two family stories that transport us to convincing versions of France in the 1960s and 1990s. “My Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan” tells the story of a devoted mother, played by Leïla Bekhti, who is prepared to move mountains for her son. Meanwhile “Queen Mom” charts an immigrant family’s experience as they come up against stereotypes about North Africans and attempt to overcome the obstacles planted in their path; the film also offers a comical and fantastical take on one of the bogeymen of…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The recent discovery of an art forger’s workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple rules to work them out.It’s everywhere: fake news, deep fakes, identity fraud. So ensnared are we in a culture of digitised deceptions, a phenomenon increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence, it would be easy to think that deceit itself is a high-tech invention of the cyber age. Recent revelations however – from the discovery of an elaborate, if decidedly low-tech, art forger’s workshop in Rome to the sensational allegation that a cherished Baroque masterpiece in London’s National Gallery is a crude simulacrum…
Recent cuts in foreign aid have forced Save the Children to suspend lifesaving programmes for malnourished children as a reported 131 million children live in areas experiencing acute food crises globally. In a remote corner of northern Afghanistan, where winter has set in, health workers are battling the clock to care for malnourished children as foreign aid cuts threaten to halt their efforts in the next 30 days, Save the Children said. For three and a half years, Dr Hanif* and his team at a Save the Children-supported clinic in northern Afghanistan have been the only lifeline for the community—providing essential care…
Another year of mixed progress shows it’s time to accelerate work on free movement, writes David Thomas. For decades, Africans have struggled to travel freely around the continent. Visas to visit fellow African states are hard to secure, costly, and limited in scope. The pan-African dream of unfettered travel between nations – let alone of arrangements allowing citizens to work and settle in other parts of Africa – remains a long way from reality. There has been no shortage of earnest meetings to discuss the issue. The latest “strategic dialogue” between ministers was held in February on the sidelines of…
Throughout December and January, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the last 12 months.For 2024, our favorite games, memes, and cultural moments included fashion criticism, hyper-capitalist terraforming, JRPGs, and more.Derek GuyA social media account dedicated to men’s fashion might seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but Derek Guy—aka “the menswear guy”—is no mere fashion blogger or social media influencer. True, he spends…
The French capital’s diverse venues are once again the backdrop for ready-to-wear collections, with local and international labels presenting their looks. Fashion critic Samantha Tse takes us through the highlights and introduces us to British designer Sarah Burton, who is the newly appointed creative director at Givenchy. Stars from the worlds of cinema and fashion were in attendance at the Louvre’s gala dinner, as the Parisian museum raises more than €1 million for its upcoming refurbishments. And we go through some of the stand-out silhouettes from Chloé, Courrèges, Alaïa and Dior and discuss a fashion pop-up aiming to pamper our…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The Nazis carried out the final “liquidation” of the Kraków Jewish ghetto on 13 March 1943, an act of violence that shocked a factory owner into becoming a saviour. These events were depicted in Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s Ark and Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List. But in 1982, Keneally told the BBC that Oskar Schindler’s story was handed to him during a chance meeting with a luggage salesman.Oskar Schindler was living in relative obscurity when his story was first featured on the BBC in 1964. Journalist Magnus Magnusson told viewers of the current affairs programme, Tonight: “You may not…