Five culturally and historically significant sites on the African continent have made the list. They include Maputo National ...

A refuge for the Western chimpanzee, pygmy hippopotamus and many other globally threatened species, Gola-Tiwai represents one ...

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

Africa currently hosts more than 100 World Heritage sites, featuring renowned locations such as the Okavango Delta in ...

The official language of Sierra Leone is English. However, its name derives from the Lion Mountains, a range that stretches 19 miles on the Freetown peninsula by the ocean. It was originally named ...

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

From a dam in Portugal to ancient forests in the Andes, join us as we explore the world in the latest issue of In our August ...

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

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 26 new sites from various countries, including India’s ‘Maratha Military Landscape’, on UNESCO’s heritage list during its ongoing session in Paris. Besides, ...

The United Nation's cultural organisation announces its choice of sites for inclusion in its world heritage list this week, with pre-historic caves, former centres of repression, forests, marine bio-s ...

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