Under President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa was closely involved with the protection of this World Heritage site and with the preservation of Timbuktu’s magnificent collection of ancient Islamic ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

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 ...

Despite its rich cultural heritage, including UNESCO World Heritage sites like Djenné and Timbuktu, Mali faces significant challenges in developing its cultural sector. Limited government funding, ...

including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts and The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird.

Mali is set to get 750 billion CFA francs ($1.2 billion) from miners in the first quarter this year following an overhaul of its mining sector. In late December, Mali had received 500 billion CFA ...

Barrick Gold Corp. said it’s suspending mining operations in Mali after the government started removing gold from the nation’s biggest mine in the latest escalation of a months-long dispute.

2, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) Copy DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s military government has started seizing gold stocks of the Canadian mining company Barrick as part of a legal battle over the ...