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Suspended sculpture transforms Cape Town museum’s atrium

September 17, 2022534 Views

Moody, brooding and floating, Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa’s “The Five Continents of All Our Desires” is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town. Malagasy’s sculptures in black silk paper are suspended in the museum’s multi-story central atrium. The constructions form a massive, slowly moving mobile that suggests geographical archipelagos and play off the building’s massive concrete curving walls. An installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa "The Five Continents of All Our Desires," is seen in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) The structure originally served as grain silos at Cape Town’s port, and the museum was c...

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Avian flu outbreak detected among Cape Town’s penguin colony at Boulders

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September 16, 2022782 Views

South African environmental authorities have confirmed four new infections and another seven suspected cases in a new outbreak of avian flu at Cape Town's Boulders penguin colony, a popular tourist attraction and an important breeding site, officials said on Friday. City and provincial officials said the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza was similar to that detected among a range of wild seabirds, including Cape cormorants and common terns, since May last year after a similar outbreak in 2018 killed hundreds of endangered penguins and other birds. African penguins, also known as jackass penguins, are the only species that breed on the continent but their numbers have been falling sharply over the years due to a loss of habitat and declining fish stocks. FILE PHOTO: Enda...

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Berlin museum approaches ethnological collection in new ways

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September 15, 2022404 Views

A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands. The east wing of the Humboldt Forum contains items from the city’s Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art. It will display some 20,000 objects, among them dozens of Benin Bronzes that were stolen in Africa during colonial times — as well as an exhibit explaining to visitors how most of them are soon to return to Nigeria. Benin Bronzes, that were stolen in Africa during colonial times, are displayed in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The Humboldtforum museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from a...

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A burkini ban at Tunisian hotels called out as discriminatory

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September 14, 2022258 Views

On the second day of her stay at the Marriott Hotel in Sousse, Jannette Mensi waded into the swimming pool only to be told by hotel staff that she would have to get out due to her choice of swimwear -- a burkini. "I was shocked, my mind froze - I never thought this would happen to me in my own country," said Mensi, 68. The burkini, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, is worn by some Muslim women who wish to preserve their modesty and is commonly seen worn on beaches in Tunisia, a majority Muslim country. A woman, wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit, stands at a beach in La Marsa near Tunis, Tunisia September 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui But numerous high end hotels in coastal tourist towns have banned the swimwear from their pools - a policy that reflec...

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Senegal’s pink lake threatened by flood waters after downpour

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September 9, 2022245 Views

After days of torrential rain, salt miner Moussa Diare could only watch in despair as flood waters breached a meters-wide gap on the banks of Senegal's Pink Lake and washed away thousands of dollars worth of salt mounds he had gathered. Senegal, like other countries in the West and Central Africa region, has recorded above-normal rainfall in recent weeks that has unleashed destructive floods after poor drainage systems failed. A worker carries a crate containing newly harvested salt from the edge of Lac Rose also known as Lake Retba as she walks past Female vendors, selling handcrafts for tourists in Niaga, near Dakar, Senegal, September 6, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra "This is the first time I've seen this. I lost a lot of money with my salt that has been washed and dissolved by...

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Renowned date palms in Africa’s hottest oasis are threatened

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September 5, 2022839 Views

In an oasis notorious as the hottest place in Africa, Tunisian farmers say they are fighting a losing battle with drought and disease that is driving many to abandon plantations where they grow some of the world's finest dates. The date palm orchards at Kebili oasis used to form green, fertile islands in an arid landscape. But now many of the trees are dying, and dry, bare and fruitless trunks stretch up into a clear blue sky. Farmer Mouhamed Bouaziz stands with environmental activist Moez Hamed at an abandoned date palm orchard, in Kebili oasis in southern Tunisia, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui The southern Tunisian oasis has endured a decade of drought, and the challenge of irrigating the palms has grown as costs have risen and power cuts become more frequent, farm...

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Zimbabwe moves 2,500 wild animals due to climate change

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September 2, 2022218 Views

A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometers (435 miles) to take the animals to their new home. Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country’s north to rescue them from drought, as the ravages of climate change replace poaching as the biggest threat to wildlife. About 400 elephants, 2,000 impalas, 70 giraffes, 50 buffaloes, 50 wildebeest, 50 zebras, 50 elands, 10 lions and a pack of 10 wild dogs are among the animals being moved from Zimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy to three conservancies in the north — Sapi, Matusadonha and Chizari...

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Germany gives ownership of looted Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria

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August 25, 20221166 Views

Germany signed an agreement on Thursday to transfer ownership to Nigeria of the Benin Bronzes, among Africa's most culturally significant artefacts which were looted in the 19th century. British soldiers took hundreds of bronzes - intricate sculptures and plaques dating back to the 13th century onwards - when they invaded the Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now southwestern Nigeria, in 1897. The artefacts ended up in museums around Europe and the United States. African countries have for years fought to recover them. FILE PHOTO: Benin bronzes objects are displayed at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday June 29, 2022 . (Bernd Weissbrod/dpa via AP) Germany returned the first of the sculptures to Nigeria in July. On Thursday, the Foundation of Prussian Cult...

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African migratory birds threatened by hot, dry weather

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August 20, 2022571 Views

Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating drought. Hotter and drier conditions due to climate change make it difficult for traveling species who are losing their water sources and breeding grounds, with many now endangered or forced to alter their migration patterns entirely by settling in cooler northern areas. Roughly 10% of Africa’s more than 2,000 bird species, including dozens of migratory birds, are threatened, with 28 species — such as the Madagascar fish eagle, the Taita falcon and hooded vultures — classed as “critically endangered.” Over one-third of them are especially vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather, an analysis by environm...

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African wildlife parks face climate, infrastructure threats

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August 14, 20221053 Views

Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are increasingly threatened by below-average rainfall and new infrastructure projects. A prolonged drought in much of the continent’s east, exacerbated by climate change, and large-scale developments, including oil drilling and livestock grazing, are hampering conservation efforts in protected areas, several environmental experts say. FILE PHOTO: A pair of hippopotamuses cool off in the Nile river near the waterfalls in Murchison Falls National Park, northwest Uganda, on Feb. 21, 2020. (AP Photo) The at-risk parks stretch all the way from Kenya in the east — home to Tsavo and Nairobi national parks — south to the Mkomazi and Serengeti parks in Tanzania, the Quirimbas and Gorongo...