The annual re-plastering of Mali’s Great Mosque ... The mosque and surrounding town, a historical centre of Islamic learning ...

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 ...

He admitted leading rebel forces who destroyed the historic shrines at the world heritage site in Mali ... of Timbuktu's mausoleums and the centuries-old door of the city's Sidi Yahia mosque.