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 ...

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.

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading rebel forces who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012. Timbuktu was a major centre of Islamic learning between the ...

Thanks to donations from governments and private institutions around the world, three new state-of-the-art libraries have been constructed to collect, restore, and digitize Timbuktu's manuscripts.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu for crimes against humanity and forcing hundreds of women into sexual ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Gilbert Price was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Eartha Kitt was nominated ...

damages should go to the local community of Timbuktu protecting the sites. A symbolic one euro was awarded to both the Malian state and Unesco, which runs the world heritage sites. As Mahdi is in ...

Although the attack was attributed to Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), the al-Qaeda affiliated coalition of armed ...

By Catherine Porter Beginning Tuesday, world leaders will discuss three wars, climate change, rising sea levels and proposals to expand representation on the Security Council. By Farnaz Fassihi ...