UK Duchess of Edinburgh travels to Chad amid ongoing crisis in Sudan
The Duchess of Edinburgh is on a three-day visit Chad in central Africa, amid a growing humanitarian crisis being faced
Sudan's archaeological treasures are being looted from museums, with statuettes and ancient palace fragments smuggled out of the conflict-ridden country and sold online. UNESCO warned Thursday that the cultural threat has reached "unprecedented levels," citing reports of museum, heritage site, and private collection thefts. The museum, housing prehistoric artefacts from the Palaeolithic era, along with Pharaonic, Nubian, and Kerma site items from northern Sudan, is among those targeted in the escalating looting.
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