Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
The threat of al-Qaeda-linked terror attacks in Mali has pushed the United Kingdom to include Timbuktu on its ‘terrorism’ travel warning long list. The UK Foreign Office admitted this week that the new travel advisory to British tourists has raised the threat in and around Mali’s often-quoted oasis town to “high” after a surge in kidnappings [...]
Gadling (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Filed under: Africa , Mali , News Just days after the UK issued a heightened travel alert for Mali, gunmen have kidnapped a French national in the North African country. Pierre Kamatte, a 61 year-old malaria researcher, was working in the northeastern town of Menaka when he was kidnapped outside his hotel on Wednesday. There has been no official confirmation, but both the French and Malian governments...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Filed under: Africa , Mali , News Timbuktu and northern Mali have long been attractive to adventure travelers, but now the United Kingdom is warning Westerners not to go there for fear of terror attacks. The travel advisory, which you can read here , states that the provinces north of the River Niger, including Timbuktu, are the operating grounds for the terror group Al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
AQMI guerrillas who are fighting in Mali have become the focus of the purported battle against Al-Qaeda in North Africa. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos UK in terror warning for Timbuktu By Andrew Harding BBC News, Timbuktu The UK government is urging tourists not to visit Timbuktu in northern Mali because of the threat of terrorism. The remote town is included on an updated...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
On a three day trip to Mali, UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman met with Government officials, visited health programs and went to the ancient town of Timbuktu to see first-hand the devastating impact of climate change on children.
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The drive from Sanga in Mali's Dogan country to Timbuktu is not for the faint of heart-- and not even possible without a solid 4-wheel drive, off-road vehicle. When we did it a couple years ago, we got lost in trackless wastes-- with an experienced guide-- and broke down several times. But halfway between driving over boulders in Dogan and the rutted track through the Sahara there's a stretch of paved...
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali is at the intersection of an east-west and a north-south Trans Saharan trade route across the Sahara. The city-state was an intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries. After long years of decline, Timbuktu is still a tourist destination and is a UNESCO World [...]
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali is at the intersection of an east-west and a north-south Trans Saharan trade route across the Sahara. The city-state was an intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries. After long years of decline, Timbuktu is still a tourist destination and is a UNESCO World [...]
Nasa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Acquired March 6, 2001, this false-color image shows Tombouctou (Timbuktu) and the surrounding region. Vegetation is red, water is blue, human-built structures are brown-gray, and bare ground ranges in color from off-white to tan.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Gwynne Dyer: Losing control of climate change | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com So there will be famines, and massive waves of refugees , and ruthless measures taken to hold borders shut against them. ... In Britain, at 4 ° C hotter, there would doubtless be severe food rationing , but the country could still just feed itself if it farmed every available piece of land: the heat would not be lethal,...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Mauritanians protesting the recent coup inside this northwest African state. The military seized power in the country where the US has established training programs. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Mauritania arrests 7 Qaeda suspects: security services Updated at: 0800 PST, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 NOUAKCHOTT--Seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda's North African wing have...
read_warbler (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
I suddenly realised that the finishing date for the Non-Fiction Five challenge, being hosted by Trish's Reading Nook, was rapidly approaching and I still only had four books read. So I took a quick look at the pile and chose The Cruellest Journey by Kira Salak to read. Kira Salak is an American woman who apparently likes to go on crazy journeys. Her friends and family all think she's mad and even she...
Vino Veritas (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
I made a list of places for us to go visit when life and time permits... Turns out that the list is LONG! Pretty sure I have not finished the list as well. I expect Africa to be the most difficult to complete... Ofcourse if a rich relative I know nothing about suddenly sent me a huge cheque.... Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Petra, Jordan Wadi Rum, Jordan Machu Picchu, Peru Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Area...
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
Swiss citizen Werner Greiner, left, greets Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré, right, in July after his release from a 7-month hostage ordeal. Mr. Touré says Mali is in a "total struggle" against rebels behind such kidnappings. Moving South From Algeria, al Qaeda-Affiliated Insurgents Find Support Among Locals in Mauritania, Mali and Niger By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
From The Wall Street Journal: NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels are spreading far beyond their original battleground in Algeria and increasingly threatening Africa's Sahara belt, scaring away investors and tourists as they undercut the region's fragile economies. Dozens of security personnel, as well as an American aid worker and a British tourist, were killed by militants in several...
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