Timbuktu is also no longer immune to the ideological ... based paper purchased from traders who crossed the desert from Morocco and Algeria. Ink and dyes were extracted from desert plants, and ...

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.

Morocco has a population of almost 37 million ... Another helper was Ousmane Ag Oumar, a 35-year-old Malian member of Imarhan Timbuktu, a Tuareg blues group. He called the waste a direct danger ...

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