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Uganda
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Uganda's Unesco-listed royal tombs lost to fire

afrol News, 17 March - The tombs of the Buganda kings, Uganda's only World Heritage cultural site, were mostly destroyed by fire last night. Only a few structures of the historically and religiously important tombs in Kasubi could be saved.

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Egypt
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Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed

afrol News, 1 March - Archaeologists have made a discovery of a massive stone head depicting one of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago in the city of Luxor, government officials have announced in the statement.

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Botswana
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Botswana youth get World Bank funding

afrol News, 8 February - The World Bank has awarded P1 million (about $100,000) to Botswana artists for the project aimed at encouraging behavioural change among youth and adults in Francistown. The young artists had submitted a funding proposal through the National AIDS Coordinating Agency last year.

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Liberia
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First female wins Liberia's youth leadership award

afrol News, 22 December - A 19-year-old Vivian Akoto of Liberia has become the first female to win A Star is Born, a youth competition which since 2006 has used music as an instrument for social change, national unity, and an agent to promote peace and development in the West African country.

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Egypt
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World's largest digital archives for Egyptian and Arabic history created

afrol News, 15 December - The Egyptian Prime Minister, Dr Ahmed Nazif, has inaugurated a national project for the digital documentation of the National Archives of Egypt (NAE) based on a sophisticated solution from IBM.

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» 04.09.2009 - SA designer to show at New York fashion week
» 06.05.2009 - Nigerian filmmakers making a global mark
» 19.02.2009 - Kenya to host new Africa reality TV show
» 19.06.2008 - Reconstruction of Madagascar royal palace progressing
» 31.10.2006 - Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
» 13.09.2006 - Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
» 03.05.2006 - More African World Heritage sites wanted
» 24.02.2006 - Nigeria hopes for forex revenues on arts, culture
» 21.07.2005 - 186 year old court refurbished in Sierra Leone
» 27.05.2005 - Two new World Heritage sites for Gabon?
» 29.03.2005 - Kenya craftsmen get environmental certificate
» 16.08.2004 - Identity Crisis: the last fortress of Somalism is about to fall
» 02.03.2004 - Controversial state aid for old Xhosa rite
» 18.02.2004 - Moat of Nigeria's ancient Benin Kingdom to be restored
» 03.07.2003 - Ancient SA kingdom returns to honour

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