OUDTSHOORN (South Africa), March 4 — At a South African farm, hundreds of ostriches stretch their slender necks and shake their black feathers under the setting sun. The birds’ lanky legs raise a cloud of ochre dust in their enclosure, one of dozens dotting the rugged landscape surrounding the southern town of Oudtshoorn. “May the … Read more
Amandelbult and Mototolo achieve IRMA 50 and IRMA 75, respectively SEATTLE, Feb. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today the Initiative for Responsible Mining (IRMA) released the audits of Anglo American’s Amandelbult and Mototolo PGM operations against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining. Independent audit firm ERM-CVS assessed Amandelbult at IRMA 50 and Mototolo at IRMA … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dairy Council of California, a leader in nutrition education and advocacy, announced the release of a culturally responsive resource to support infant and toddler nutrition for African American families. “Feeding Infants and Young Toddlers: Highlighting African, Black and Caribbean Heritage Foods” was produced with $10,000 in project … Read more
Las Vegas, NV, United States, Jan. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In honor of Black History Month, the city of Las Vegas presented Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Executive Director Kelvin Watson with the African American Trailblazer Service Award in the category of Community Activism and Politics. The ceremony marking the 10th annual awards was … Read more
PARIS, Jan 24 — Imane Ayissi is on a mission to put authentic African textiles in the spotlight but faces an uphill battle as a pioneer African couturier at Paris Fashion Week. The bark of the Obom tree, kente cloth from Ghana, kapok fibres from Burkina Faso are some of the textiles — little-known in … Read more
ABIDJAN, Dec 28 — In the kitchen of his Abidjan restaurant, Ivory Coast chef Charlie Koffi prepares his country’s staggering tropical bounty with the techniques of fine French cuisine. And he’s far from alone. A growing number of his fellow chefs in the West African nation are retouching local specialties with cooking skills picked up … Read more
TUNIS, Dec 25 — Mohamed Amine Htiouich began honing his metal engraving skills as a teenager. Now the 37-year-old Tunisian is training the next generation in the ancient art, recently recognised by Unesco. Htiouich first worked on copper, then silver and finally gold at the family’s workshop in the old medina of Tunis. Two decades … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 — Two women embraced their passion for travelling by challenging themselves to drive around the African continent, the second largest in the world, in a four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle. Zuraina Ismail, 56, and Iyra Azhari, 47, who are currently in Caprivi Strip, Namibia, began their expedition by land from Cape Town, … Read more
NEW YORK, Nov 21 ― Mosaics, paintings, jewelry, ceramics, manuscripts from the 4th to the 15th century: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is showing 200 ancient and medieval works that reflect a thousand years of influence of the Byzantine Empire on the Christian communities of Egypt, Tunisia and Ethiopia. One of the … Read more
LANGEBAAN, June 2 — Elon Musk knows how to dominate a news cycle, but for all the coverage of the world’s richest man, the tech billionaire’s early life in apartheid-era South Africa remains sketchy. Amid Musk’s roller-coaster pursuit of Twitter, his father Errol Musk told AFP in an interview that he had tried to raise … Read more
