A virtual gallery to showcase Mali's cultural history has been launched, featuring tens of thousands of Timbuktu's ancient manuscripts. The manuscripts were smuggled to safety from Timbuktu after ...

Timbuktu is in Mali, a West African country bordered by seven others, including Algeria, Niger and Senegal. Unless you fly from the capital of Bamako, it’s difficult to reach — somehow fitting ...

Timbuktu, which has a population of about 50,000, is held by at least two rival groups who have been involved in a northern uprising against Mali’s government, headquartered in the southern ...

In 2012, jihadists took over Timbuktu — today a small, sunbaked city in northern Mali, but once the most prominent of numerous centers of Islamic learning in pre-colonial West Africa — and ...

Timbuktu, in northern Mali, is a UNESCO World Heritage site of huge cultural importance. Pictured is its famous Sankore Mosque, built in the 15th-16th centuries.

TIMBUKTU, Mali – The first sign of change came as our convoy of food aid and medicine pulled up to the last northern town held by the Malian army. The atmosphere was tense as the heavily armed ...

Five years after taking power by force, Mali's junta leader, General Assimi Goita, has abandoned his promise of a democratic ...

I have been writing about Mali, even before the military coup that took place last March, since my friend Yeah Samake, the mayor of Ouelessebougou, was running for president. Since I continued to ...

An ancient mud-walled mosque, believed to have been built in the 16th century, in Timbuktu. TIMBUKTU, Mali — At the entrance to this fabled city, Malian soldiers clutching Kalashnikov rifles ...

When there are big orders, the guides do fairly well — at least compared with other workers in Timbuktu. The average salary in Mali is just under $80 a month, a sum they can reach penning ...