Ministry of Culture: Meetings with UNESCO to Follow up, Recover Looted Sudanese Antiquities

Sudanhorizon – Nazik Shamanm

The Department for Tourism at the Ministry of Culture and Information has revealed that meetings are underway with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on how to trace antiquities stolen from Sudan.

The Director of External Relations at the Ministry, Muhammad Mudathir, told Sudanhorizon that ministerial meetings are being held with UNESCO on how to recover the looted antiquities.

He pointed out that the meetings stressed the need to follow up the movement of antiquities, monitor them and work to return them, and that the meetings discussed the possibility of the maintenance of the Sudanese National Museum, after review of the damage to which it was subjected.

Mudathir stressed that the activity of the tourism sector is currently limited to travel and tourism agencies, which in turn work in the field of Hajj and Umrah, adding that most hotels are privately owned, which means that their rehabilitation falls on the shoulders of their business owners.

It is to be recalled that last year, the Sudan National Museum was looted by the Rapid Support militia.

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