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As the U.S. and al-Qaeda Watch Mali’s Phony Peace, Tension Mounts in Timbuktu
TIME.com Several interested parties await the outcome as a once-healthy democracy descends into conflict between military mutineers and their president Pick-ups packed with soldiers zoomed toward the...
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Fall of Timbuktu to rebels prompts fears for historic treasures
The Times Rebels in Mali completed their capture of the biggest population centres in the north of the country yesterday by taking the historic trading town of Timbuktu. Its capitulation, eight days...
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Food stocks low, fuel hard to find: Mali’s misfortunes worsen as al-Qaeda...
The Times Mali’s two-week-old junta rejected international calls to relinquish power yesterday as sanctions intended to force the new regime to step down began to bite and Islamists cemented their grip...
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Escape from Timbuktu: Foreigners Flee as Mali’s Rebels Declare Independence
A handout picture released by Azawad National Liberation Movement (MLNA) on April 2, 2012 and taken in February 2012 reportedly shows MNLA fighters gathering in an undisclosed location in Mali. AFP /...
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Mali’s Fog of War: Refugees Tell of Terror, Hunger and Rape
TIME.com It took Ibrahim Touré three weeks to escape from Timbuktu after rebels seized the desert town, but, in his heart, he hasn’t really left. The 26-year-old shopkeeper studies the floor as he...
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Is Al-Qaeda Beefing Up Its Presence in Mali?
TIME.com Ali Cissé, 30, a shopkeeper, couldn’t contain his curiosity when a new wave of gunmen rolled into town. Outside the governor’s compound in downtown Gao — a dusty administrative center of adobe...
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An unholy alliance
The Economist Tuareg rebels and al-Qaeda unite to create a fierce new state in the north GUNFIRE pierced the night quiet. For weeks, inhabitants of the ancient desert towns of Gao and Timbuktu had...
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The jihadists’ frightening new front
The Economist Extreme Islamists are threatening the region—and an ancient African heritage LEGEND held that the main gate of Timbuktu’s Sidi Yahya mosque, a wood-panelled affair with metalwork cast in...
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Destroying Timbuktu: The Jihadist who Inspires the Demolition of the Shrines
This TV grab shows Omar Hamaha, military chief of the Islamist group Ansar Eddine, gesturing on April 3, 2012 in Timbuktu. AFP / GETTY IMAGES TIME.com The charismatic military leader of Salafist rebels...
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Mali and the Sahel: The war is far from over
The Economist The humiliation of Mali’s army and government is a rude reminder that the wider region is still a hive of instability SEVEN weeks ago Moussa Mara was the rising star of Malian politics....
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