Development | Events | Events | Tourism
Africa prepares for carnival season
afrol News, 1 March - Africa's many carnivals are not the most internationally known, but Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique carnivals have long traditions. Newcomer Seychelles this year offers a tourism-adapted carnival.
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Lesotho
Cooperation | Development | Diplomacy
Lesotho's China-made parliament delayed
afrol News, 16 November - Lesotho's new parliament building, financed by a Chinese grant in 2005, has to be inaugurated later than planned. Both the Chinese contractors and works by Lesotho utilities had made mistakes.
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Burkina Faso
Development | Entertainment | Fine Arts | People
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.
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Africa
History | Policy | Primary Education
African students to get common history syllabus
afrol News, 10 June - In an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage, the UN, historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a history syllabus for schools across the continent.
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Mali
Development | Development | History | History | Humanistic sciences
Timbuktu ancient document centre opening
afrol News, 27 May - Mali's famous old city of Timbuktu this weekend will see the opening of a new building housing and restoring a collection of an estimated 700,000 ancient manuscripts, recognised as one of Africa's principal cultural heritages.
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Tanzania
Cooperation | History | Infrastructure | Infrastructure | Tourism | Tourism
"African Queen" to Tanzania or Germany?
afrol News, 20 April - The mythical "Liemba" ferry on Lake Tanganyika, operational since 1913 and made world famous by the film "African Queen", desperately needs an overhaul as she is no longer fit for passenger freight. Ancient colonial power Germany considers repairing the "Liemba", while others favour transporting her back to Germany.
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Uganda
Development | History
Uganda tombs to be reconstructed
afrol News, 13 April - An expert group has concluded that it is "feasible" to reconstruct the Tombs of Buganda Kings, Uganda's only World Heritage List site, lost to fire last month. The Ugandan government has secured UNESCO assistance for the works.
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Mozambique
Cinema | People
Movie industry discovering Mozambique
afrol News, 13 April - The movie industry seems to have discovered the potential of Mozambique. 'Margarida' and 'A república di mininus' are the two new feature movies that have just started their filming in Mozambique these days. Both are coproductions between Mozambique, Portugal and France.
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Somalia
Music | Oppression | Policy | Religion
Music again banned in Mogadishu
afrol News, 9 April - The Somali insurgent group, Hisbul Islam, this week imposed oppressive edicts on the radio stations in Mogadishu, especially those based in the areas under their control. Music has again been banned.
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Algeria | Morocco
Ethnic | History | Law | Policy | Policy
Berber languages "threatened in Morocco, Algeria"
afrol News, 31 March - A new report about the world's most threatened languages especially highlights the languages of the indigenous Berber people in Morocco and Algeria. Despite constituting around 50 percent of the population, their languages have been discriminated against and ignored.
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South Africa
Crime | Ethnic | History | People | Violence
Racist song "part of South Africa's heritage"
afrol News, 29 March - Singing of the song "Kill the Boer; Kill the farmer" in public by ruling ANC officials in South Africa has caused a public debate. While a court holds the song incites racist violence, the ruling party and trade union say it is "part of South Africa's heritage."
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Ghana
HIV-AIDS | Religion | Science | Social sciences
Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana
afrol News, 24 March - More than one third of Ghana's population believe that AIDS is caused by witchcraft. But large-scale intervention programmes for improving health standards aree starting to convince people to trust medical explanations of the disease, researchers find.
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Ethiopia
Energy | Ethnic | Infrastructure | Socio-economic
Ethiopia dam to "devastate entire tribes"
afrol News, 23 March - A campaign has been launched to stop the building of a massive hydroelectric dam project on Ethiopia's Omo River. A human rights group says the dam will entirely uproot and destroy eight threatened cultures, most of which only live in the flooded area. 200,000 people are affected.
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Uganda
Development | History | History | Religion
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
Handicraft | History | Policy
UK returns ancient artefacts to Egypt
afrol News, 5 March - Egyptian culture authorities today confirmed the return of a large number of ancient artefacts from Britain, dating back to the early Stone Age till the pharonic era. The collection will be used for a new antiquities museum in Qena.
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