Wax fabric is widely seen across West Africa today, but its origins trace back much further. Initially inspired by Indonesian batik and industrialized by Europeans, it was later reclaimed and ...

Oosting discusses the alignment of the theme with the significance of Vlisco’s textiles in expressing individual and cultural ...

Sanad will leverage its state-of-the-art facilities in Abu Dhabi to service Lion Air's V2500 engine fleet. Having maintained ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

But just scrapping USAID cannot be the final step. Leaving it at that would create a dangerous power vacuum on a continent like Africa, where U.S. foreign policy should put forth a viable ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...

Since its inception in 2018, the Africa Business Forum has promoted dialogue between governments, investors, service providers, project promotors and other stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, ...

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in the future. This tectonic activity, involving the Somali and Nubian Plates, ...

Djibouti's long-serving Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Youssouf awaits being installed as the new chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Mahmoud was ...

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