In April 2021, the Government of Mali and UNESCO each received ... their role in structuring the life of Timbuktu’s inhabitants. A Malian ‘Heritage Passport’ was distributed to military personnel, ...

It is a bright morning, my second in Timbuktu, in the geographic center of Mali, and al-Wangari is taking me to see the project that has consumed him for the past three years. We duck through a ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction ... The project was funded by the Government of Mali and UNESCO with contributions from the European Union, ...

But for much of the past decade the U.S. State Department and the foreign services of other Western governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali.