Back in 2012, when it was reported that the region was overrun by the jihadist group Ansar al-Din and a Tuareg rebel group, ...

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.

"Everyone in Timbuktu heard the shots," he said quietly ... the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 under criteria (ii), (iv) and (v) due to its outstanding universal value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th ...

A jihadist suicide attack kills 27 Nigerian soldiers, including the commander, in the Timbuktu Triangle, as ISWAP militants ...

Nigerian Army loses 22 soldiers in Timbuktu Triangle operation; over 70 ISWAP insurgents, including top commanders, killed.

Wearing all-white traditional west African robes, his head wrapped in ... whose actions had a "traumatic effect on the population of Timbuktu". The people "lived in an atmosphere of fear, violence ...

Timbuktu was a major centre of Islamic learning between the 13th and 17th Centuries and was added to the Unesco world heritage list in 1988. Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African ...

At least 27 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist suicide attack in the northeast, two army sources said on ...

Many African kingdoms, including Benin and Kongo ... expanding into the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became famous for its trade in gold and the empire became incredibly ...

Troops attached to Operation Hadin Kai neutralised over 70 terrorists combatants and at least 3 of their commanders hibernating in an enclave called Timbuktu Triangle in North East.

New Orleans company Intramural Theater mounts Ken Prestininzi’s 'Timbuktu, USA,' on Jan. 24-Feb. 2 at the New Marigny Theatre.