The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted an al-Qaeda-linked leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in ...

Mali: Authorities must investigate deaths of at least eight civilians, including six children, after drone strikes in ...

But for much of the past decade the U.S. State Department and the foreign services of other Western governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali.

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 ...

R eports of mass looting at Sudan's National Museum amid the ongoing civil war have shocked the cultural heritage community.

Gunmen have attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, killing seven people. Five of those who died were Malian security guards. The Malian military said ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

Nchini Mali, shirika lisilo la kiserikali la kutetea haki za binadamu la Amnesty International linathibitisha kwamba kweli ni ...

Battuta travelled throughout the known Islamic world. In the 1350s, he travelled through Mali to Timbuktu where he heard stories of Mansa Musa, which he wrote down. Similarly, another scholar ...