Frenchs

Ebola isn’t the only crisis unfolding in the DRC

How a political power struggle could distract from eradication efforts

Special Period II

How Cuba is faring in its economic war with the US, and what it bodes for the future of the island’s regime

Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin

Own goal in Tunis

A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football

Obsessed with the mess

Searching Belgium’s secondhand shops for forgotten treasures

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

How the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground

Beats of conspiracy

French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through underground rap

Journalism in Burkina Faso: “submit or disappear”

What the kidnapping of two leading figures in Burkina Faso's independent press says about media repression

One must cultivate one’s own garden

In a working-class suburb of Paris, a decades-old allotment area is under threat. The fight to save the Jardins ouvriers des Vertus is more than just a tussle between gardeners

Influencers in the apocalypse

A former French cultural attaché in Jerusalem profiles Gaza’s Instagram influencers and content creators, showing how their activities shape the war, report on its horrors and provide a window onto

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