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Egypt
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King Tut statue among stolen pieces, UN confirms

afrol News, 16 February - Several important relics from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo are reported missing after the unrests, including a statue of Tutankhamen, the UN today confirms.

Egypt
Culture - Arts
US returns Tutankhamun collection to Egypt

afrol News, 11 November - The US Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to repatriate a collection of ancient Egyptian objects, including some that had belonged to King Tutankhamun and had been in New York since 1948.

Burkina Faso
Culture - Arts | Society
Burkina Faso's "crazy opera" is rising

afrol News, 19 October - Even architect Diébédo Francis Kèrè "thought it was a joke" when he was commissioned to build an opera village in the Burkinabe countryside to host the African parallel of Germany's famous Bayreuth Festival. Not any more.

Senegal
Culture - Arts
African contemporary art festival to open in Dakar

afrol News, 4 May - From tomorrow and for one entire month, the Senegalese capital will be organising the 7th Biennale of Africa Contemporary Art; Dak'art. Since its inauguration in 1992, the Dakar biennale is consolidated into becoming the leading international art event of the entire region. This year's edition especially features the late Senegalese poet and ex-President Léopold Sédar Senghor, but also gives space to represent 87 other artists from 27 countries.

Egypt
Culture - Arts | Society
Egypt's top mufti bans statues

afrol News, 3 April - The highest religious authority among Egyptian Muslims, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, has issued a fatwa banning the display of statues. Although the fatwa focuses on statues in private homes, it has raised fears that it mat be misused by Islamists wanting to harm Egypt's wealth of pre-Islamic art on historic sites and in museums. Sculptors and their work are generally condemned.

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