#north africa

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Real colour photo of a Tiger I of the s.Pz.Abt.501 (501st Heavy tank battalion), Tunisia, 1942

#germany #ww2 #north africa #tiger tank #s.pz.abt.501 #africa corp #afrika korps #ww2 german panzers #1942 #tunisia

[reasonsforhope]

"In one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, a remarkable thing has happened—the scimitar-horned oryx, once declared extinct in the wild, is now classified only as endangered.

It’s the first time the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation organization, has ever moved a species on its Red List from ‘Extinct in the Wild’ to ‘Endangered.’

The recovery was down to the conservation work of zoos around the world, but also from game breeders in the Texas hill country, who kept the oryx alive while the governments of Abu Dhabi and Chad worked together on a reintroduction program.

Chad... ranks second-lowest on the UN Development Index. Nevertheless, it is within this North African country that can be found the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve, a piece of protected desert and savannah the size of Scotland—around 30,000 square miles, or 10 times the size of Yellowstone.

At a workshop in Chad’s capital of N’Djamena, in 2012, Environment Abu Dhabi, the government of Chad, the Sahara Conservation Fund, and the Zoological Society of London, all secured the support of local landowners and nomadic herders for the reintroduction of the scimitar-horned oryx to the reserve.

Environment Abu Dhabi started the project, assembling captive animals from zoos and private collections the world over to ensure genetic diversity. In March 2016, the first 21 animals from this “world herd” were released over time into a fenced-off part of the reserve where they could acclimatize. Ranging over 30 miles, one female gave birth—the first oryx born into its once-native habitat in over three decades.

In late January 2017, 14 more animals were flown to the reserve in Chad from Abu Dhabi.

In 2022, the rewilded species was officially assessed by the IUCN’s Red List, and determined them to be just ‘Endangered,’ and not ‘Critically Endangered,’ with a population of between 140 and 160 individuals that was increasing, not decreasing.

It’s a tremendous achievement of international scientific and governmental collaboration and a sign that zoological efforts to breed endangered and even extinct animals in captivity can truly work if suitable habitat remains for them to return to."

-via Good News Network, December 13, 2023

#chad #abu dhabi #north africa #rewilding #endangered species #conservation #zoology #conservation biology #oryx #good news #hope #texas #big game #animals #endangered #environmentalism #environmental science #zoo #zoos #zoo animals

[nuroful]

The Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) is appealing for donations, especially in the lead up to Ramadan.

#sudan #north africa #east africa #signal boost #mutual aid #fundraiser #middle east #horn of africa #ramadan

[gemsofgreece]

👀 Mediterranean solidarity ✊

#that person is clearly Mediterranean but if they aren’t also Greek I will eat my hat #Mediterranean #Greece #funny #south Europe #north Africa #random

[the-eyespy]

🇲🇦🇵🇸 Demonstration in Casablanca, Morocco, opposes the ongoing war in Gaza, reflecting widespread solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

#morocco #north africa #sahara #palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #gaza strip #free gaza #gaza #rafah crossing #rafah border #tel aviv #israel #news update #human rights #war news #genocide #antisemitism #jerusalem

[the-puffinry]

birds from the Theodorias, East Church mosaics in the Qasr Libya museum, ca. 540 CE, via livius.org.

#mosaics #byzantine art #also one uhm. large lizard. there's also a lizard #on which that duck is standing #libya #north africa

[stuhde]

i had shared what is happening in sudan on a long facebook post last night, but it virtually received almost little to no engagement or shares from the nearly 600 “friends” i have on the site.

this morning, my great-aunt was shot by the soldiers fighting for power, and God forbid, i lose more of my family members before eid this friday.

please read below to understand what is happening and how you can help my country. i hope the tumblr community can show more kindness than the lack of support and advocacy i’ve seen elsewhere.

يا رب اجعل هذا البلد آمناً 🇸🇩

the lack of awareness and advocacy from the African, Arab, and Muslim diaspora and the human rights community has been painful.

while Western media has done little to no coverage of the ongoing conflict in the capital city of my motherland, Sudan, it appears that the rest of the world also partakes in normalizing crimes and violence against SWANA people.

violence and war hurting the SWANA region are NOT ordinary occurrences — no one, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, religion, and gender, should experience the unprecedented amount of violence that harms my two living grandmothers, aunts and uncles, and baby cousins who live in Khartoum.

your decision to ignore reading or educating and discussing with others about what is likely to be a civil war is complicity in viewing SWANA people as individuals who regularly experience conflict and are undeserving of help.

the silence is damaging, and it is up to us as privileged members of the diaspora (or individuals living in the Western world committed to human rights) to support the people of my country and their dream for a stable, democratically elected government.

what is happening in Sudan is a fight that started on April 15 between two competing forces for power — the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — neither groups are representative of the needs of our people. The Sudan Army is loyal to the dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, and the RSF is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.

with both power struggles backed by different Arab and Gulf nations, the two parties have been fighting for power for the last few years. While they worked together to try and end the people’s revolution, they lost. however, they are now in a constant power play of who will get to rule the nation.

this all means that war is NOT a reflection of my country — violence does not represent the SWANA people. Sudan is a nation of beautiful culture, strong women, intellectual and influential Islamic scholars, poets, and youth at the front lines of the revolution. we are a people committed to a region of peace for ourselves and the rest of the Ummah.

my family and the rest of Sudan’s innocent civilians are at the most risk, with many currently without drinking water, food to eat, electricity, and complete blockage to any mosques during the final nights of Ramadan, our holiest month of the year.

i ask that you please keep Sudan and our people in your prayers — donate to the Sudan Red Crescent or a mutual aid GoFund Me, email your representatives if you live in a country that can put pressure on either competing force of power, discuss this with your family and friends, and please do not forget to think about SWANA people — our brothers and sisters in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and many others need our love and support.

الردة_مستحيلة ✊🏾

#KeepEyesOnSudan

#lama makes a monologue #tw: war #tw: death #tw: violence #tw: gun mention #KeepEyesOnSudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan coup #SudanCoup #sudan #sudan crisis #SWANA #MENA #north africa #middle east #current events #news #war #violence #long reads #long post #Sudan_Update #sudan update

[visitheworld]

El Jem Amphitheater / Tunisia (by Andre Alexander)

#travel #tunisia #el jem #amphitheater #roman architecture #north africa #tunisie #placestovisit

[folkfashion]

Moroccan Jewish woman, from Morocco, by American Sephardi Association

#moroccan jewish #jewish #morocco #north africa #africa #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

[fuyu003]

Donate to help

#help with money #d0nations #gofundme #north africa #libya #arab #weather #weather news #storm #storm daniel #9/11 #september 2023 #crises #weather crises

[photos-of-everyday-life]

Dar Glaoui.

Fès, 2023.

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #street photography #black and white #analog #film photography #travel #analogue #b&w #street #vintage #faded af #faded grandeur #grandeur #architecture #morocoo #fez #medina #tiles #north africa

[deutschland-im-krieg]

The tail of 67 victory ace Hauptmann Erbo Graf von Kageneck's Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7, W.Nr. 1326, Yellow 1 of 9.JG 27 Afrika, Eastern Front, 1941. On 24.12.1941, he was shot down by the Australian RAAF ace, Clive Caldwell in Libya. He died of his wounds in Athens on 12 Jan 1942. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

#germany #ww2 #luftwaffe #ww2 aircraft #messerschmitt #bf 109 #north africa #jg 27 #erbo graf von kageneck #clive caldwell #libya #athens #1941 #1942 #raaf

[sissa-arrows]

Arabs are not native to North Africa, that's like saying white people are native to South America or South America. They're all there because of colonialism.

Except there’s tons of studies proving that the “Arabs” of North Africa are not descendants of Arabs but Arabized natives.

Very few Arab tribes settled in North Africa and the process of arabization was way more cultural than demographic. For example in a 2017 study that used Tunisia to represent North Africa they concluded that we were 88% North Africans/Imazighen, 2% from Western and Central Africa, 4% Arabs and 5% Europeans.

So Arabs as a whole are not native to North Africa but the people living there and calling themselves “Arabs” are native not colonizers.

You can totally condemn the arabization but claiming that Arabized natives are colonizers is stupid.

Lastly as I always say as an Algerian our grandparents fought for a FREE ALGERIA. For an ALGERIAN ALGERIA. They didn’t fight for an Arab Algeria or an Amazigh Algeria. So I don’t give a flying fuck if people are Arabized or not. We’re Algerians that’s it.

#ask #North Africa #arabization #same old discourse #it often comes from people who never opened a book and don’t know the difference between Arabs and people who have been Arabized.

[nuroful]

via jinforlaughs and sapayouth on Instagram

#sudan #north africa #middle east #horn of africa #keep eyes on sudan #antiblackness

[napoleonyaoi]

Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1882.

(Or as I like to call it, Man Engages in the Age Old Tradition of Annoying Your Dog)

#art #jean léon gérôme #academicism #historical painting #orientalism #north africa #egypt #middle east #albania #neoclassicism #txt

[mapsontheweb]

The rapid decline of indigenous Jews in Arab / Muslim nations since 1948

#maps #jews #middle east #north africa