Yet Timbuktu's isolation has become a bit less ... robed imam talking emphatically on his Nokia in front of the Djingareyber Mosque, a massive mud fortress built in the 1320s that rises in the ...

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 ...

The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia ... Fourteen of these, as well as the sacred gate of the Sidi Yahia ...

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...