During Musa's time, West Africa was abundant with gold and salt as well as cultural centers such as Timbuktu, which he used as a means of sustaining others. His expansion of trade made Mali the ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction ... The project was funded by the Government of Mali and UNESCO with contributions from the European Union, ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu ... governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali. The threats originate from a disparate collection ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire ... for salt and gold. In Timbuktu and the neighbouring market city of Djenné, Mansa ...

Mali’s ancient city of Timbuktu, 12 miles north of the River ... Under his rule, the kingdom of Mali stretched for about 2,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to modern-day Niger, and encompassed ...