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Timbuktu fights for its heritage

December 19, 2014

In 2012, Islamist militants captured Timbuktu in Mali and Mali's citizens risked their lives to protect their cultural heritage.

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Symbolbild Überfällen und Entführungen in Mali
Image: DW/A. Kriesch