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Africa: These World Heritage Sites Are Under Threat From Climate Change
The Conversation Africa, 13 August 2020
Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for… Read more »
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South Africa: The Continued Threat of Coal Mining At the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site
The Conversation Africa, 17 May 2020
Most developing countries face acute tensions between socio-economic development and environmental protection. Any opposition to proposed development, on environmental or heritage… Read more »
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Africa: Bill to Protect African Heritage Sites in Sight
Daily News, 16 May 2020
THE Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports is preparing a Bill to be tabled in Parliament, for protecting and preserving the African liberation heritage areas against… Read more »
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Africa: Urban Culture and Climate Change Action - the 10th World Urban Forum
UNEP, 9 February 2020
The link between cultural and natural heritage - and the role the two can play in tackling climate change - runs far deeper. Read more »
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South Africa: Heritage and Climate Row At Methodist Church in Durban
New Frame, 20 September 2019
The minister of Manning Road Methodist Church commissioned a mural by street artist Ewok on the church boundary wall, which is a heritage site, creating outrage in the community. Read more »
African World Heritage Sites Under Threat
Coastal erosion and sea-level rise have damaged African world heritage sites. The Roman city of Sabratha on the Libyan coast and the colonial forts along the coastline of Ghana are slipping into the sea. Natural sites are also under threat. Relict Guinean coastal forests have largely disappeared, partly through coastal erosion, writes Elizabeth Edna Wangui, Grace W. Ngaruiya, Joanne Clarke and Nick Brooks for The Conversation.
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Greenpeace Africa called the intention to open logging in Ebo forest "a massacre", saying the forest is essential for more than 40 local Banen communities. It said that opening the ... Read more »
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The United Nations and its partners are supporting the Sudanese government as it responds to recent severe flooding, which has killed 90 people and affected 380,000 others, the UN ... Read more »
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About three billion people in developing countries rely on firewood or charcoal for their daily cooking purposes, contributing to the death of 4.3 million people annually from ... Read more »
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Ancient Madagascan grasslands are falling victim to a trend to afforest the world that has gripped political leaders from Madagascar to Ethiopia, and from Turkey to the United ... Read more »
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Human Rights Watch say on September 24, soldiers from the Rapid Intervention Battalion attacked and looted the Royal Palace in Bafut, North-West region. The palace is included on a ... Read more »
