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  • Ibn Battuta International Festival to be held in November

    CASABLANCA, 2017/09/02 The Moroccan Association of Ibn Battuta will organize November on 9-12 the second edition of the Ibn Battuta International Festival in Tangier. Themed "Travelers, the of Ambassadors of Peace", the second edition of the festival, which highlights the legacy of renowned traveler Ibn Battuta, seeks to celebrate Morocco’s cultural heritage and promote travel and meetings between peoples.

  • Three decades later, Saudis get their first concert

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2017/09/02 Legendary Arab singer Rashed al-Majed gave his fans three encores in the Saudi capital on Thursday night. Why not? They had waited about three decades for such a show. Majed opened for Mohammed Abdu as part of what one music lover called a "paradigm shift" in the conservative Islamic kingdom, which has cautiously begun introducing entertainment despite opposition from Muslim hardliners.

  • Casablanca makes spectacular comeback to international festival scene

    CASABLANCA, 2017/09/02 Morocco’s economic capital, Casablanca, has returned to the international festival scene in a spectacular way. Ten arts were honoured throughout Casa Festival, which ran for ten days in July, during which national and international artists performed. Dance, readings, film screenings, children’s shows and street art took place in Casablanca’s 16 boroughs. Festival organisers said the new concept was to make Casa Festival free for the people of Casablanca.

  • Roman ruins discovered underwater off Tunisia

    TUNISIA, 2017/09/02 Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the city of Neapolis was half submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD.Underwater expedition has found streets, monuments and around 100 tanks used to produce fermented fish-based condiment popular in ancient Rome. "It's a major discovery," Mounir Fantar, the chief of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, said. He said an underwater expedition had found streets, monuments and around 100 tanks used to produce garum, a fermented fish-based condiment that was a favourite of ancient Rome.

  • Mali: ICC Orders Ex-Islamic Radical to Pay Damages for Destruction of Shrines

    MALI, 2017/08/18 The International Criminal Court has ordered an Islamic extremist to pay $3.2 million in restitution for destroying centuries-old religious shrines in Mali. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was convicted by the court last year for overseeing the destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque door with pickaxes and bulldozers in the ancient city of Timbuktu, at the same time as extremists briefly seized control of northern Mali in 2012.

  • European Museums Plan Summit On Return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

    BENIN, 2017/08/18 A bronze sculpture of a cockerel that adorned a Cambridge University dining room is part a huge haul of looted antiquities that may presently be returned to Nigeria and neighbouring Benin Republic any minute at this time. The British Museum will take part in a European summit to discuss the return of art seized from the Benin Kingdom, presently part of southern Nigeria, by a British punitive expedition in 1897 as "reparations" next it defied the British Empire by imposing customs duties.

  • Africa: Crafting an African Victory for the World

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/12 On May 25, 1963, Africans gathered in Addis Ababa to create the Organisation of African Unity, the precursor to today’s African Union. It stood tall in the minds of Africans who decided to unite for a common cause. It demonstrated our ability to set aside differences in order to make the world a better place. Presently, on 1 July 2017, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia will stand at the helm of the the World Health Organisation with the ambition to reform, transform and make world health and agile partner of economic transformation for the world.

  • Blazing The Trail With Coffee Culture In Cameroon

    CAMEROON, 2017/07/09 Hermine Tomaino Ndam Njoya is arguably Cameroon’s major coffee farmer. Her farm spans some 150 hectares, and she depends on the labour of a whole village to keep the farm alive. But what sets her apart is not just the size of her farm. What makes her different is that she is a woman excelling in a venture generally reserved for men. Growing up in her native Noun commune in Cameroon’s West Region, she saw her parents tend their coffee farm with great care. “So I fell in love with coffee,” she says, smacking her lips next a sip of the aromatic drink.

  • South Africa: President Zuma Pays Tribute To Jazz Legend Johnny Mekoa

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2017/07/08 South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has extended his condolences to the family of world renowned trumpeter and chief of the Gauteng Music Academy, Johnny Mekoa, who passed away on Monday. Mekoa established the Gauteng Music Academy in 1994, which focused on teaching communities jazz, particularly the youth. In 2015, President Zuma conferred Mekoa the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver, an award for South African citizens who have excelled in arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport.

  • Mexico’s cultural heritage and expanding tourism attractions

    MEXICO, 2017/04/11 A religious and historical synergy between Catholicism and indigenous practices gives Mexico the perfect cultural cocktail for a wide variety of festivals. A lot of are well known internationally, while others are from presently on to be largely recognised outside the country. DAY OF THE DEAD: Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is arguably one of the majority well-known Mexican festivals outside of the country, even before it was beamed across the silver screen in the opening scene of Spectre, the 2015 James Bond blockbuster. Although the film again plunges into the storyline, the busy scene featuring the holiday captured the world’s attention – so much so that a similar parade was started for the Day of the Dead in 2016.
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