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Tanzania
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.

Equatorial Guinea
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.

Mauritania
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.

Somalia
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
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.

Egypt
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.

Egypt
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.

Botswana
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.

Liberia
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.

Egypt
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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