Ethiopia's Shuwalid Festival inscribed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has registered Ethiopia's Shuwalid Festival as an intangible World cultural heritage, the official Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported Wednesday.

The registration of Shuwalid, an annual three-day festival celebrated by the Harari people in eastern Ethiopia, was announced at the 18th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage underway in Kasane, Botswana, from Dec. 4-9, the report said.