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Saving Timbuktu’s Manuscripts, One Ancient Page at a Time

August 25, 2014

BAMAKO, Mali — The deliberate burning of thousands of ancient manuscripts by the Islamic jihadists who seized Timbuktu and other parts of northern Mali in 2012 dealt an emotional blow to the culture and scholars there and far beyond. To add insult to injury, some of the manuscripts, which were destroyed in the Ahmed …

Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping

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The UN Approves a New Peacekeeping Force to Fix Mali

April 25, 2013

by Dulcie Leimbach

The United Nations Security Council has authorized a new, ambitious stabilization mission to be deployed in Mali, consisting of nearly 13,000 military and police personnel who will begin operating on July 1 with a mandate of one year to provide security to “key population centers.” The mission, called Minusma (for Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission …