From here to Timbuktu – Alison Healy on a byword for the most remote and distant place imaginable
Back in 2012, when it was reported that the region was overrun by the jihadist group Ansar al-Din and a Tuareg rebel group, ...
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Timbuktu’s World Heritage-listed mausoleums are destroyed by religious fundamentalists
A tourism official says that Islamist extremists destroyed four mausoleums in Timbuktu Sunday. The director of Mali’s Timbuktu tourism office, Sane Chirfi, said that Ansar Dine rebels linked to ...