Mansa Musa, the King of the Mali Empire, remains one of the wealthiest individuals in history, with his fortune far ...

AGADEZ, Niger (AP) – Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali’s fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old ...

But after a French-led offensive drove the Islamist militias out of Timbuktu and other northern Malian cities in January, it emerged that the vast bulk of Timbutku’s manuscripts—95% of them ...

Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes destroyed centuries-old mausoleums of saints in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu on Saturday in front of shocked locals ...

The ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali is suffering under a months long blockade by Islamist militants as instability grows in the region. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 5, 2023.) ...

Sky Mali, the only commercial airline flying to Timbuktu in Mali's interior, has cancelled flights there due to insecurity, it said on Monday, deepening the isolation of the northern city which ...

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, in 2022. He was a police leader in Timbuktu, in northern Mali, under the extremist group Ansar Dine.