cultural

The rehabilitation of the cultural heritage of Timbuktu is crucial for the people of Mali, for the city’s residents and for the world.
UNESCO/F. Bandarin

Mali begins rebuilding mausoleums from Timbuktu's 'golden age', UN agency

14 March 2014
Local masons in Timbuktu today started to lay down the first earthen bricks to reconstruct World Heritage mausoleums damaged when radical Islamists occupied the northern part of the country in 2012.