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 ...

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 ...

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 ...