Kalamazoo is actually pretty simple. It is a mid-sized city located in Southwest Michigan. Timbuktu, however, is a little trickier. To visit this iconic place, you will need to travel to the edge ...

Alyssa Banta Islamic moderates continue to dominate religious thinking in Timbuktu (the city's mosque, dating from c. 1325, is a UNESCO World Heritage site). Efforts by Saudi Wahhabi proselytizers ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 under ... UNESCO and France defined an action plan to rehabilitate the city’s damaged cultural heritage and ancient manuscripts. A team of ...

MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. Supporters of armed military extremists have sieged the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, Al Arabiya reported, citing local sources. According to them, militants have ...

In 2012, Mali was undergoing a grave political and social crisis. The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia, are ...

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.

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 ...