Four new African sites entered the UNESCO World Heritage List, bringing the total number to 112. This year, two African ...

All of the new places added to the list this year have “outstanding universal value” and meet at least one out of 10 ...

T he United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 26 new sites to the World Heritage ...

These are geographically defined areas which can be managed in ways that protect biodiversity, ecosystem functions and "where ...

The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension to South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.

The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own ...

Two cultural landscapes in the African continent and one ancient site in the UAE were on Friday inscribed on the coveted. The ...

Two cultural sites, in Cameroon and Malawi, were added Friday to the UNESCO World Heritage List, said the organisation, which ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

The United Nation's cultural organisation announces its choice of sites for inclusion in its world heritage list this week, ...

The Minister, Dr Dion George, has wished the South African delegation negotiating for the proposed extension of iSimangaliso Wetland Park into Maputo National Park in Mozambique well, as they ...