"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An army air strike in Mali's Timbuktu region killed at least 18 people, causing controversy over targeting civilians or terrorists. Malian forces claim the strike aimed at neutralizing terrorists amid ...

According to NAF, the strikes targeted a terrorist enclave north of Chiralia, a known hideout within the notorious Timbuktu Triangle. In a statement, Group Captain Kabiru Ali, Deputy Director ...

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 ...

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 targeting terrorists. The ...