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Last September the UN's world heritage organisation, Unesco, warned of a "threat to culture" and urged art dealers not to import or export artefacts smuggled out of Sudan. Before the war ...
Last September the UN's world heritage organisation, Unesco, warned of a "threat to culture" and urged art dealers not to import or export artefacts smuggled out of Sudan. Before the war ...
In June, two months after war broke out between the ... containing important relics of Sudan’s modern history, such as presidential vehicles, paintings and gifts. It also hosts a library with ...
Threats to archaeological sites Archaeological sites in Sudan have not been spared from the ravages of the war. Fighting has broken out on ... erasing the drawings and paintings. The latest rain ...
There have been previous efforts to bring Sudan’s main warring parties – the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – to the negotiating table and stop the war.
Now, its artefacts are under threat from war. "The Sudan National Museum has been the ... UNESCO said it was calling on "the public and the art market... in the region and worldwide to refrain ...
taking in the paintings that had traveled thousands of miles from Kenya to Minneapolis. Aleu’s quiet demeanor shows experience far beyond his 26-year-old body. He saw the majority of his family perish ...
Diplomats and aid officials from around the world are meeting Tuesday in London to try to ease the suffering from the 2-year-old war in Sudan, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of ...
The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...
Editor's note: This story contains graphic images of violence and death. Sudan's catastrophic civil war — a conflict that continues to shatter a country that much of the international community ...