In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

For four hundred years Timbuktu was an academic centre of the world. The great manuscript archives from this period that solved matters such as determining the direction of Mecca and time keeping ...

The play is 'an unhinged maelstrom of vulgarity, violence and self-serving ineptitude,' says theater critic Brad Rhines.

He was acquitted on charges of rape and sexual slavery, as well as destroying Timbuktu's ancient mausoleums. Hassan was handed over to the ICC in 2018 by the Malian authorities - five years after ...