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 ...

It could educate 25,000 students and housed hundreds of thousands of manuscripts ... In the 1350s, he travelled through Mali to Timbuktu where he heard stories of Mansa Musa, which he wrote ...

Tombs at the Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu were smashed by Islamist militants in 2012 The International Criminal Court in the Hague has taken into custody a man wanted for war crimes in Mali ...