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A two-day multistakeholder workshop in Gaborone has laid the groundwork for Botswana’s first comprehensive mapping of the digital environment for its Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), opening new opportunities to strengthen skills, market access, investment and evidence-informed cultural policy. UNESCO, in partnership with the Ministry of Sport and Arts and the Botswana National Commission for UNESCO, convened the Multistakeholder Consultation Workshop on 25 and 26 August 2026 under the UNESCO-KFIT Digital Creativity Lab III Project, supported by the Republic of Korea. The workshop brought together representatives from government, academia, cultural…

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The Government of the Republic of South Sudan today announced that the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape (BBML) has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming South Sudan’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The inscription acknowledges the landscape’s outstanding universal value and secures international recognition for one of the planet’s most remarkable migratory systems. Spanning Boma National Park, Badingilo National Park and the vast network of wildlife corridors that connect them, the landscape covers approximately 12 million hectares of savannas, floodplains, wetlands and woodlands. One of the largest intact and…

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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Busan (Republic of Korea), decided to inscribe three sites on the World Heritage List following an emergency procedure: the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape (South Sudan), Mount Amel Castles (Lebanon), and Sebastia (State of Palestine). The application of the emergency procedure reflects the current context marked by numerous crises of diverse nature, including armed conflict and climate change, that are heavily affecting heritage and exposing it to serious threats. These three sites have also been inscribed at the same time on the List of World Heritage…

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Four years after the landmark Transforming Education Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General, UNESCO is bringing together education leaders from around the world to identify solutions to the global education financing crisis. As new figures show that international aid to education could fall by up to 30% between 2023 and 2027, and that 113 countries spend more on debt servicing than on education, UNESCO is publishing concrete recommendations to help countries break the debt trap and invest in education. Education is the most powerful investment countries can make, yet it…

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