Africa is home to an extraordinary wealth of natural and cultural heritage, encompassing stunning historical sites and places, vibrant traditions, iconic landscapes, and globally significant sites ...

Since the proclamation of African World Heritage Day in 2015 by the 38th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, every 5 May, African cultural and natural, tangible and intangible heritage is ...

A new report alleges the U.N. has been complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from six World Heritage Sites in Africa and Asia. These sites “are very often the stolen ancestral lands ...

Investors warned to assess risk of backing extractive companies threatening sites. New report puts potential global risk at highest level yet of 31 per cent Risk rises to almost two thirds (61 per ...

Two World Heritage sites in Kenya have been picked by a UN agency to benefit from a Sh64 million fund put up to cushion such sites in Africa from the coronavirus impact. The Sacred Mijikenda Kaya ...

Many heritage sites have been abandoned and left derelict, while stakeholders fight over who is responsible for them. Some ...

Accra, Nov. 18, GNA – Madam Abla Dzifa Gomashie, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has called for deeper continental cooperation to protect, manage and communicate Africa’s cultural ...

Two World Heritage sites in Kenya have been picked by a UN agency to benefit from a Sh64 million fund put up to cushion such sites in Africa from the coronavirus impact. The Sacred Mijikenda Kaya ...