During my time in Timbuktu, several locals denied that the ... but when the United Kingdom refused to meet the group's demands for Edwin Dyer, a British tourist, he was executed—locals say ...

They created centres of learning and culture at Timbuktu and Djenné. The Kingdom of Benin was founded by the Edo people. It was ruled by the Divine Obas. In 1440, Oba Ewuare turned Benin City ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 ... of Mali and UNESCO with contributions from the European Union, Switzerland, Andorra, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Croatia and Mauritius, as ...