The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to its World Heritage Tentative List. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities applied, last February, in accordance with the established criteria for registering such sites. Abdel Mohsen Shafi’i, Supervisor of the Central…
All provincial parks managed by Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) are closed until an ongoing employee strike – which started yesterday (April 6) – has been resolved. “All MTPA offices are closed, as are all tourist facilities and parks,” said Senior Manager: Communications for MTPA, Kholofelo Nkambule, highlighting that tour buses were being turned away at…
Two years ago, Malawi became the first country in the world to introduce the malaria vaccine into its childhood immunization programme, followed by Ghana and then Kenya. The vaccine was introduced in a phased approach that targeted 11 districts in Malawi. Globally, more than half of childhood deaths occur in Africa, and malaria is a…