With the rise of a paramilitary force that analysts say is controlled by the Kremlin, Russia is openly expanding its state ...

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Britain, struggling to find sources of economic growth, now looks to the African continent as growth’s “engine room”. The ...

JOE PENNEY TIMBUKTU — Down the road from the 700-year-old iconic ... people are guilty about abducting and trading millions of humans from the African continent for 500 years, they must justify why ...

Mali’s ancient city of Timbuktu, 12 miles north of the River ... but stories of its vast riches had travelled thousands of miles from one continent to the other. It was the capital city of ...

Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako (“Timbuktu”) returns to the screen ... of greater changes that were taking shape across the continent, foreshadowing China’s growing influence in Africa ...

"In Timbuktu, Bamako, Djenné and Gao, many of them still are in private family collections. Many have been trafficked and have left the country or the continent.” Private collections may be ...

The manuscripts prove that science and scholarship in Africa have a history long before western colonisers set foot on the continent. The Meanings of Timbuktu, authored by leading international ...

said he had not witnessed "any sign of panic or any sign of change" in Russian forces on the continent. In Timbuktu, the UN interpreter has weighed up fleeing the country with his family against ...