After two hours we banked low over flat-roofed, dun-colored buildings a few miles east of the river and touched down at Timbuktu's tarmac airstrip. Outside a tiny terminal, a fleet of four-wheel ...

In 2012, several buildings in Timbuktu, including 14 of the 16 mausoleums which form part of the World Heritage site, were destroyed within the context of armed conflict and civil unrest. Attacks also ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 ... “Why isn’t Bensouda investigating crimes of blood? These are just buildings”,’ she said. ‘But it was so important. We needed to send the ...