Thousands of Malians joined the annual replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains ...

Although Timbuktu is not quite as difficult to reach as it was in the days of the great explorers, it can still take a bit of work to get there. Air France is the main carrier into Bamako, the ...

At least two people have been killed and five wounded when artillery fire hit the northern Malian city of Timbuktu, a month and a half into a blockade by fighters in the area. Attacks in northern ...

A renowned Islamist leader and his fighters on Monday seized control of Timbuktu and chased out the Tuareg rebels with whom they captured Mali’s fabled city a day earlier, witnesses said.

While the Timbuktu manuscripts are in trouble, there is better news from another ancient Malian town, Djenne, south of the rebel-controlled territory.

A man cleans inside the Grand Mosque, the largest mud-brick building in the ancient town of Djenne, one of the oldest cities in Mali in this, April 29, 2007, file photo.

A team of experts led by UNESCO says it has found far more serious damage to Mali's cultural heritage in the fabled city of Timbuktu than initially estimated, with 16 mausoleums totally destroyed ...