Timbuktu's downfall came when one of its conquerors ... Aisha (not her real name) was 23 years old, petite, with a slender figure. She worked as a waitress. Her jet black skin was unblemished ...

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 ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 for ... We needed to send the message that destroying sites classified by UNESCO cannot go unpunished.’ ‘Mali’s age-old heritage was targeted ...

“We have never seen anything like this,” said Kossi ag Mohamed, a 31-year-old herder who described fleeing his village in Mali’s Timbuktu region. Wagner, he said, had brought “catastrophe.

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.