Tag: Timbuktu
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🇳🇬🇺🇸 Strategic Shift and Kinetic Action: The U.S. Approach Against the Islamic State in Nigeria
Nigeria’s domestic insecurity has increasingly been instrumentalized within U.S. foreign policy discourse. In November last year, President Donald Trump threatened direct kinetic intervention to counter a so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. Despite these claims, insecurity is driven by overlapping and long-standing land disputes, herder-farmer tensions, communal violence, and organized crime, with the vast majority of…
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🌍 Timbuktu’s ancient manuscripts return after years away
In a room at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, staff photograph and scan fragile manuscripts, page by page.These texts, some dating back hundreds of years, contain knowledge that scholars say exists nowhere else. Thirteen years ago, when al-Qaida-connected fighters swept into the city, staff and local families smuggled tens of thousands of manuscripts south…