Timbuktu on Townhall

• Mali troops hunt for rebels after Timbuktu clash Sun Mar 31
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• Suicide car-bomber kills Malian soldier in Timbuktu Thu Mar 21
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• French president in Mali to back French troops, visits Timbuktu Sat Feb 2
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• Bulk of Timbuktu manuscripts survived occupation unharmed Wed Jan 30
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• Mali Islamists bulldoze more tombs in Timbuktu Thu Oct 18
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• Islamists shoot in air to disperse protest by Timbuktu women Sat Oct 6
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• Mali Islamists execute accused murderer in Timbuktu Tue Oct 2
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• Into Africa Thu Jul 26
  Cliff May
  The name Timbuktu has come to evoke the most remote, mysterious, and inaccessible corner of the earth. Five hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a great center of Islamic scholarship and the southern terminus of the principal trans-Saharan route to the western Mediterranean, a cosmopolitan outpost where camel caravans brought buyers and sellers of salt, gold, ivory, and slaves. ... more

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