The “Timbuktu manuscripts” is a blanket term for the substantial collection of historical documents and writings preserved in Timbuktu, Mali, reflecting the intellectual and scholarly ...

When the first rays of sunrise strike the great mosque at Djenné, many believers fall to their knees from its beauty. Djenné, Mali, is a fly speck on a map. Overlooked by most travelers, it's at ...

The populations evacuated the area in great numbers to seek refuge in other cities of Mali or frontier countries. These regions contain two of the four World Heritage properties: Timbuktu – 1988 (C ...

Djenné, the oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa is situated on the floodlands of the Niger and Bani rivers, 354 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Timbuktu. Founded by merchants around 800 AD ...

The last time I'd visited Timbuktu, in 1995, there were only three ways to get there: a three-day journey upriver by a motorized pirogue, or canoe, from the trading town of Mopti; a chartered ...

Over a period of six months, manuscripts were smuggled out of Timbuktu to Mali's capital Bamako, as time was running out to rescue and preserve the documents from near destruction.

Timbuktu rebuilds mausoleums destroyed by Islamists UNESCO estimates al-Qaeda-linked militants wrecked over a dozen of the fabled 15th and 16th century shrines By Serge Daniel 14 April 2015, 8:09 am ...

Islamist rebels set fire to libraries containing Timbuktu's precious manuscripts, but local families smuggled out majority of the texts in donkey carts and canoes.

But since March, fewer than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board. But in the first half of 2012, there were only about 7,000 visitors — a huge blow to the economy.