Published July 28, 2021, 10:21 AM
PARIS, France The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday added 13 cultural sites in Asia, Africa, Arab Region, Latin America and Europe to its World Heritage List and one extension to an existing cultural site in Mexico.
Photo taken on July 27, 2021 shows a street in As-Salt, Jordan. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted on Tuesday to inscribe the city of As-Salt located in the northwest of Jordan on the World Heritage Site List, state-run Petra news agency reported. As-Salt, “the Place of Tolerance and Urban hospitality,” became the sixth Jordanian landmark to be declared a World Heritage Site, Petra said. (Xinhua)
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Mixed fortunes for Pakwach, Mbarara iconic solar eclipse sites
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Saturday May 22 2021
Summary
The unique solar eclipse sites in Uganda that were to promote tourism, have witnessed mixed fortunes. While the hybrid solar eclipse monument in Pakwach has been vandalised, the one in Mbarara has been given Shs150m by UNDP to spruce up its architectural radiance,
Bamuturaki Musinguzi writes.
Although Uganda is blessed with two solar eclipse monuments, one celebrating a recent and the other an event 100 years ago, these unique tourism sites are under threat from vandals.
The more recent monument celebrates Uganda’s hosting of a rare hybrid solar eclipse in 2013, which was erected at Owiny Primary School in Pakwach District, north-western Uganda. It was unveiled by President Museveni, but is now being vandalised by unknown people.
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