Mali’s interim president, Colonel d’Armée Assimi Goïta, who came to power in a coup on 18 August 2020, enjoys remarkably ...

A report by the Timbuktu Institute think tank has indicated that the jihadist activities mainly by the JNIM Jihadi group, ...

Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...

Gabriele Steinhauser is The Wall Street Journal’s Southeast Asia bureau chief. Before that, she covered sub-Saharan Africa for eight years, most recently as the Journal’s Africa bureau chief. Based in ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

People are experienced differently based on personal perspective, timing, and how we engage with them. Perceptions vary—one ...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Judiciary Committee chairman, wants to rein in judges ruling against Trump. But where was he when judges were ruling against Biden? (Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press) ...

The old political adage that “where you stand depends upon where you sit” has been getting aired out in Washington. Republicans and conservatives used to celebrate judges’ issuance of ...

Timbuktu, once the heartbeat of Saharan culture, fell under Ansar Dine's black flag. Ghali wasted no time. Music was banned. Instruments were torched. Ancient Sufi shrines were smashed with pickaxes.

He was being prosecuted for the war crime of destroying nine of the “333 Saints” mausoleums and the gate of the Sidi Yahia Mosque during the occupation of Timbuktu, northern Mali, between April 2012 ...

Their hit 1997 song ‘Spice Up Your Life’ features a line which has been deemed controversial: “Yellow man in Timbuktu / Colour for both me and you.” Now, 28 years later, radio stations ...

and Timbuktu, Mali. High school students from Tempe can go on cultural exchange trips to sister cities through the organization, which also hosts international students in Tempe. The program was ...