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 ...

Tourist hotspots come and go but until recently, Timbuktu had been holding its own as the world’s leading destination for metaphoric travel. But I fear that globalisation is causing a steep ...

The only other man tried by the ICC over Mali's conflict admitted destroying cultural sites in Timbuktu at a landmark trial in 2016. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi pleaded guilty to destroying nine ...