In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

Preservationists (including Allimam Achahi, far left, and Abdel Kader Haidara) are trying to rescue the city's rare manuscripts from centuries of neglect. "They must be protected," says Haidara.

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has carried out a series of precision airstrikes, neutralizing key terrorist fighters and destroying multiple gun trucks in the notorious Timbuktu Triangle, a ...

The accomplishment cannot be overstated. Laing was the first European to reach Timbuktu in recorded history and the first to ...