In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors say al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud ...

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday said it would sentence in November a Malian jihadist police chief convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu. The militant ...

He also became the first European to stumble into a city that had become virtually synonymous with “impossible-to-reach, ...

This also beats Bland Shire, which is home to about 6,000 people. Timbuktu - once spelt Timbuctoo - is the city in northern Mali in Africa that has come to represent a place far away, at the end ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.

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 ...

The latest plot twist in the ongoing battle over where the Cleveland Browns will play football in the future landed on ...

Joshua Hammer is a contributing writer to Smithsonian magazine and the author of several books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu ... to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer ...

They created centres of learning and culture at Timbuktu and Djenné. The Kingdom of Benin was founded by the Edo people. It was ruled by the Divine Obas. In 1440, Oba Ewuare turned Benin City ...

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