Such accounts have won him sympathizers among Timbuktu's minority Arab community, which in turn has angered the city's dominant ethnic groups, the Tuareg and Songhai. Up on the roof the ...

Ansar Dine was one of several Islamist militant groups to exploit an ethnic Tuareg uprising to take over ... leader who destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu was sentenced to nine years in jail ...

Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, ...

THE first defendant to plead guilty to destroying ancient monuments apologised to Mali yesterday, expressing his “deep regret,” for his misdeeds in the city of Timbuktu. Tuareg former militant Ahmad ...

Founded between the fifth and 12th centuries by Tuareg tribes, Timbuktu is known as the "Pearl of the Desert" and "The City of 333 Saints" for the number of Muslim sages buried there during a ...

The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali ... The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu alongside AQIM during the 2011 ...

Malian authorities say the partnership is designed to combat Tuareg separatists - who have ... brother was killed by Wagner mercenaries in the Timbuktu region. A women’s leader in the camp ...

lost manuscripts in Timbuktu, ship-breakers in Bangladesh, Tuareg rebels in the Aïr Mountains, and Arabian horses in Oman. A native of Fayette County, Georgia, and a graduate of Furman University ...

He occupies a position at the centre of different movements – the formal representative and leader of the Imghad Tuareg community ... focused its activities in the Gourma region, south of Timbuktu. In ...