This week on Africa Weekly we begin in Burkina Faso in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso; once a magnet for tourists it’s now largely overlooked by Western travellers because of recurrent jihadist attacks. Then we head to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where after three years in the making, the country’s National Museum has opened its doors in the capital of Kinshasa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping exchanged gifts after their bilateral meeting at the 2nd Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Friday.
Putin was presented with a copy of The Legendary Horse on the Great Silk Road figuring, the figure itself has great historical meaning and is kept in the National Museum in Beijing.
Xi also gave the Russian president a set of silverware from the Beijing Friendship hotel, which was built 65 years ago celebrate cooperation between the two countries.
Putin presented the Chinese leader with a Russian-Chinese cooperation poster, which was created by artist Isaac Greenstein in 1956.
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Archaeologists, palaeontologists and anthropologists collect items from debris inside Brazil’s National Museum as journalists make their first visit since the building was engulfed by a fire last year.
Brazil’s historic National Museum opens its doors to cameras for the first time since the 200-year-old institution was engulfed by a fire last year. IMAGES
Researchers from the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro say they have recovered more than one thousand items from the debris of a massive fire in September.
The indigenous people of the Maracana camp in Rio helplessly watched as the National Museum burned. Just days after the massive blaze ripped through the entire museum, which housed a vast collection of objects and archives of Brazilian indigenous history, they say they’re experiencing the loss as a new assassination of their memory.
A few hundred protesters who gathered outside the gates of Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro tried several times to push into the site, demanding to see the damage and calling on the government to rebuild the structure that was destroyed by a fire on Sunday night.
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Even before the embers had begun to cool, grief over the huge cultural loss gave way to anger at funding cuts many say are threatening Brazil’s multi-cultural heritage, after an inferno that gutted the treasured National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.
(3 Sep 2018) A huge fire engulfed Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, lighting up the night sky with towering flames as firefighters and museum workers raced to save historical relics from the blaze. (Sept. 3)
A massive fire rips through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, one of Brazil’s oldest. The museum, located in the city’s north, was closed to the public when the fire broke out and no injuries were immediately reported.
A massive fire rips through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, one of Brazil’s oldest. The museum, located in the city’s north, was closed to the public when the fire broke out and no injuries were immediately reported. IMAGES
