African World Heritage Fund launched
Africa is under-represented in the UNESCO World Heritage List (according to the GAP-Report) therefore now a African World Heirtage Fund shall raise the number of World Heritage Sites in Africa and support the preservation of the existing ones:
A fund to help the States of sub-Saharan Africa improve the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage will be launched in South Africa on 5 May. The African World Heritage Fund will also be used to help boost the number of African sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Sub-Saharan Africa is severely under-represented on the List. Despite great cultural and natural diversity, only 65 of the 812 World Heritage sites are to be found in this region. They constitute 43 percent of sites on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
reference: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/253
Read more here.
At the website of UNESCO's World Heritage Centre you can find information on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa.
Among them are severeal on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
I already reported earlier on african cultural and natural heritage sites:
29th Session of UNESCO:Fund for African World Heritage Sites planned
Africa 2009
Cape MacLear at Lake Malawi (UNESCO-World Heritage Site) photo: WIKIPEDIA, GNU
1 Anonymous wrote on 02.04.2007:
is this heritage site natural or cultiral?:)