cultural heritage

The French government has appointed a French art historian and a Senegalese scholar to lead a feasibility study into an initiative by  President Emmanuel Macron to return African cultural artefacts currently held by museums in France, a move that one French historian said will 'make European curators quake in their boots'.

French president François Hollande announced the contribution to saving war-torn sites during a conference in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.