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UNESCO picks Cameroonian for top job

Cameroonian Lazare Eloundou Assomo is the first African to be appointed as Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. He explains the social and economic benefits of being listed as a UNESCO heritage site.

(Photo: An ancient manuscript preserved in the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in UNESCO heritage site, Timbuktu. Credit: MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images)

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