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» Africa prepares for carnival season
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» Tanzania cultural sector to get major boost
» Lesotho's China-made parliament delayed
» US returns Tutankhamun collection to Egypt
» Seychelles to organise "prestigious" carnival
» Burkina Faso's "crazy opera" is rising
» Botswana independence festivities moved by rare birds
» Congo's Staff Benda Bilili on big tour
» Sahrawi refugee to court: "I'm not a slave"
» African students to get common history syllabus
» Timbuktu ancient document centre opening

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.

Egypt
Crime | Fine Arts | History

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.

Tanzania
Development | Policy

Tanzania cultural sector to get major boost

afrol News, 9 February - A well-funded "major programme" to support the cultural sector is close to be approved. The programme would fund Tanzanian entrepreneurs in the cultural field and help conserving national heritage.

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.

Egypt
Fine Arts | History

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.

Seychelles
Events | Events

Seychelles to organise "prestigious" carnival

afrol News, 2 November - Seychelles is planning an international carnival scheduled to take place in its capital Victoria in March 2011, echoing the time when Seychelles first became a melting pot of different cultures from the entire world.

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.

Botswana
Events | Wildlife

Botswana independence festivities moved by rare birds

afrol News, 1 October - For the 44th time, Batswana citizens this week celebrated their independence. Also in Maun, close to the Okavango Delta, traditions were upheld - although they had to be moved to protect a rare bird.

Congo Kinshasa | World
Events | Music

Congo's Staff Benda Bilili on big tour

afrol News, 28 June - The heart-warming Kinshasa street musicians group Staff Benda Bilili is starting a breath taking summer tour, visiting 56 stages and festivals in Europe, Japan and Canada.

Western Sahara
Cinema | Entertainment | History | Law | People

Sahrawi refugee to court: "I'm not a slave"

afrol News, 17 June - Sahrawi refugee Fetim Salam Hamdi has been portrayed as a slave in a poorly translated documentary film. But Ms Hamdi insists she is a free woman and now goes to court to stop the film's screaning.

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.

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.

Equatorial Guinea
Policy | Policy

Equatorial Guinea "trying to bribe UNESCO"

afrol News, 20 May - Media organisations are furious over a US$ 3 million personal donation by Equatoguinean dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema to the UN culture agency UNESCO. The donation is to co-finance a press freedom award.

Cape Verde
Music | People

Cesaria Evora undergoes heart operation

afrol News, 12 May - Cape Verde's famous singer Cesaria Evora is recovering from an emergency heart operation at a Paris hospital. The star says she will hopefully be back on stage by the end of the year.

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.

Mauritania
Ethnic | Policy | Policy

Mauritanian students protest Arabisation

afrol News, 16 April - Police in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott used teargas and batons to disperse a student march protesting the Arabisation of the city's university. At least 30 students were arrested.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.


» 01.03.2010 - Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed
» 22.02.2010 - UNESCO offers support for Morocco’s damaged heritage site
» 19.02.2010 - Southern Africa youth exchange programme launched in Maputo
» 08.02.2010 - Botswana youth get World Bank funding
» 22.12.2009 - First female wins Liberia's youth leadership award

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