"I heard the people of Timbuktu were not satisfied with the marabouts here," he said. I asked who his best customers were. "Women," he answered, grinning, "who want children." He produced a small ...

"We need to change people's minds about Islam," he says. "We need to show them the truth." The last time I'd visited Timbuktu, in 1995, there were only three ways to get there: a three-day journey ...

B AMAKO (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 said its attack targeted armed militants.

as reparation for the damage inflicted on the people of Mali and the international community by the destruction of cultural property in Timbuktu in 2012. The token sum represented a significant ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction of heritage was prosecuted as crime of war, recognising cultural heritage protection as an integral part of ...

They tell the imam that they have come to wage jihad. The imam replies that in Timbuktu, people wage jihad (which has the double meaning of spiritual reflection and self-purification, in addition ...