For the best part of a decade, Ousmane Dembélé was football’s most tantalising unfinished sentence — all gift, few moments. Then came a June night in Boston, three goals, and the unmistakable sense that a career had finally caught up with its talent. On 26 June 2026, against Norway, Ousmane Dembélé did something he had...

The 10th edition of the “Doing the Future Together” economic forum, convened by the Elessa Lothin-Sen Foundation, gathered policymakers, central bankers, development financiers and business leaders at the Malimba Club in Bonapriso, Douala, on 11–12 June 2026. Over two days, participants sketched the portrait of a country determined to convert its regional weight into lasting...

Standfirst: It took a World Cup night, an opponent that refused to bend, and a strike from another planet. East Rutherford, June 16, 2026: with a decisive brace against Senegal (3-1), Kylian Mbappé overtook Olivier Giroud to stand alone atop France’s all-time scoring charts. 58 goals in 99 caps — and a reign that’s only...

After Australia, Britain has now shut under-16s out of the major platforms. From one continent to the next, some twenty countries are legislating to keep teenagers off social media — an unprecedented wave whose real-world effectiveness, however, is far from proven. The signal came from London. On Monday, June 15, Keir Starmer announced that the...