An aerial view of the termite mounds in Namaqualand, South Africa, coated by spring flowers. The flowers develop preferentially on the mounds as a result of they’re richer in vitamins than the encircling soil.Credit score: Alastair Potts Lire en français The world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds, found in Namaqualand, South Africa, are offering perception into…
It’s additionally Africa’s largest, however critics view the mosque as a conceit undertaking for a former president who tried to call it after himself. Algeria has inaugurated the world’s third-largest and Africa’s largest mosque, which had been delayed for years amid political shifts, forward of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
The panorama alongside the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand area is dotted with hundreds of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the floor space. These heuweltjies, because the locals name them (the phrase means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground community of tunnels and nests of the southern…