In Madagascar’s central highlands, families periodically gather not to mourn the dead, but to celebrate them. The ritual, known as famadihana, literally translated as “the turning of the bones,” involves exhuming the remains of ancestors, rewrapping them in fresh cloth, and dancing with them before returning them to their family tombs. Far from being horrific,
Ethiopia continues to puzzle visitors and global observers by living in a different year from much of the world, remaining about seven to eight years behind the widely used Gregorian calendar. While many outsiders describe this as being “late,” Ethiopians insist it is not a delay but a deliberate preservation of a centuries-old system rooted
During the silent Christmas holidays, thieves carried out a daring and highly sophisticated break-in at a German retail bank and dug through a reinforced concrete wall to access a vault and steal an estimated €30m (Ksh4.5 billion) of cash and valuables, police have said. The heist occurred at a Sparkasse savings bank branch in Gelsenkirchen,