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 ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes. Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag ...

Mansa Musa was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. He was one of the richest individuals in the ...

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 ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

But for much of the past decade the U.S. State Department and the foreign services of other Western governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali.

Other notable airports include Gao Airport, Timbuktu Airport, and Mopti-Sevaré Airport, which facilitate travel to the more remote regions of the country. Although Mali does not have an active ...

"Timbuktu" is hardly the only movie that's portrayed ... unresolved questions of ethnicity and resources that kept northern Mali in a state of crisis that the jihadists later exploited.

Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run of shows in Bamako, Mali. Around that time the group met Paul Chandler, a ...