Timbuktu is also no longer immune to the ideological ... or buried them in the sand. It was a modern-day version of a story that has played out in Mali for centuries, a story of war, depredation ...

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 ...

Even for a global citizen like Robert Murphy — with more than 100 trips to Africa under his belt — going to Timbuktu was a gamble. In 2013 the Feinberg School of Medicine professor traveled to this ...

In 2012, Mali was undergoing a grave political and social crisis. The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia, are ...

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 ...