Alyssa Banta An ancient manuscript from ... It is a bright morning, my second in Timbuktu, in the geographic center of Mali, and al-Wangari is taking me to see the project that has consumed ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction ... UNESCO and France defined an action plan to rehabilitate the city’s damaged cultural heritage and ancient ...

Some 4,200 ancient manuscripts were burned or stolen ... As of May 2012, the Government of Mali sought help from the international community through UNESCO. Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia were placed ...

The Dogon, subsistence farmers who hold ancient animist beliefs, are one of central Mali's ethnic groups ... a two-day drive across the desert from Timbuktu. McIntosh was there to look in on ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu ... A month after I left Timbuktu, Mali officials, under pressure from the French government, freed four AQIM suspects in exchange for the Frenchman.

Battuta travelled throughout the known Islamic world. In the 1350s, he travelled through Mali to Timbuktu where he heard stories of Mansa Musa, which he wrote down. Similarly, another scholar ...

Ansar al-Din maintained a powerful position in collaboration with AQIM during the rapid push to take control of northern Mali. The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu ...