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African UNESCO World Heritage Sites you have to see
There are more than 100 UNESCO world heritage sites in sub-Saharan Africa. Here is a list of eight must-visit world heritage sites across the continent. Robben Island, a well-known United Nations ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa just hit 100 World Heritage Sites. UNESCO says that’s not enough
UNESCO announced five new locations had joined the list of World Heritage Sites, taking sub-Saharan Africa’s total over 100 for the first time. Rwanda’s first two World Heritage Sites were ...
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Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change
Getty Images Sites on the West African coast are vulnerable to storm ... Twyfelfontein was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007 Climate change can increase humidity in relatively arid areas ...
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One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history
Kush was an African superpower and its influence extended ... be found in Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan, declared a world heritage site by the UN's cultural agency, Unesco. Here you can find ...
Africa's incredibly famous prison island that is now a major haven for dark tourism
One of the more famous dark tourism destinations is South Africa’s Robben Island. The island is now a UNESCO World Heritage ...
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7 captivating new UNESCO World Heritage Sites to explore
There are 1,223 UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the globe ... Gedi was one of the most important Swahili towns near the East African coast, with a great mosque, palace, well-constructed ...
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Egyptians exhume the dead as historic cemetery razed
Since 2020, thousands of graves have been demolished at the Unesco-listed World Heritage site, one of the oldest necropolises ...
Africa's tiny island just 7 miles from a seaside city that's now a haven for dark tourism
Robben Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of South Africa’s prime dark tourism destinations. Alongside Robben ...
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These World Heritage sites will spark kids’ imaginations
More than 40,000 hexagonal columns shape the mystical landscape at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 ... in southern Africa. Sian Ka’an, which ...
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50th anniversary to the World Heritage Convention
Another of UNESCO’s priorities is World Heritage in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only approximately one-tenth of the sites inscribed, despite having represented one-third of the ...
Restoring heritage and honouring our heroes
With a dignified burial the family will remember, and therein also a society. In this one moment of return of a citizen lies ...