"Everyone in Timbuktu heard the shots," he said quietly ... the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

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Wearing all-white traditional west African robes, his head wrapped in ... whose actions had a "traumatic effect on the population of Timbuktu". The people "lived in an atmosphere of fear, violence ...

A separatist group in Mali said an airstrike on a market in the country’s north has killed at least 18 people. Mali’s army ...

An army air strike at a market in Mali's northern Timbuktu region on Sunday killed at least 18 people and injured seven, a local rights group said, while the army said it was targeting terrorists.

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 under criteria (ii), (iv) and (v) due to its outstanding universal value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th ...

Vigilante operatives from Sector 2 of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested seven suspected logistics suppliers for the Islamic ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 for its Outstanding Universal Value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries. Among its treasures were ...

Many African kingdoms, including Benin and Kongo ... expanding into the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became famous for its trade in gold and the empire became incredibly ...