Timbuktu is a place only for the most adventured hard-core travelers. This is not a place for the common traveler as the temperature can get up to 125 degrees, with only 2 inches of rain recorded ...

Not all of the news out of Africa is bad. For the first time in its long history, this remote town on the edge of the Sahara has a mayor elected by the people, Harber Sabane, 51, who has high hopes… ...

TIMBUKTU — In the workroom of the Ahmed-Baba Institute of Higher Studies and Islamic Research, time seems to have slowed down. ... denying the continent its rich written history.

Most trade is done with neighbouring Mauritania rather than southern Mali, and crowded riverboats from Mopti take days to reach the port on the River Niger that serves Timbuktu, 10km from the town ...

From Here To Timbuktu: ... and later an outpost connecting the West African coast with the continent's largely unexplored (by Europeans, at least) interior. ...

For centuries Timbuktu was a cultural hub on the African continent, as well as an Islamic centre of learning.

And so I have been watching from afar the disaster that has overtaken Timbuktu, engulfed Mali and choked our continent. Men with pick-axes, hammers and other tools have been systematically ...