
““The Europeans came very late to Timbuktu," says Marie Rodet, lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. For centuries, they tried to reach the place because it was a mythological place of trade and Islamic scholars. It had been described in Arab manuscripts in the Middle Ages so they knew about the history but they never reached it because the population never allowed them.”
“It is a place where many, many things happened since the 12th Century. A place of knowledge... a place that tells us a lot about how great the African people were and continue to be. We need to save Timbuktu.”
“The city is quite calm nowadays, even though residual criminal acts remain. On terrorist issues we bet on Serval. People rely on Serval for this kind of issue, much more than on the UN soldiers.”
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Timbuktu é uma cidade antiga no Mali, situada 20 quilômetros ao norte do Rio Níger. É a capital da Região de Tombouctou, uma das 19 regiões administrativas do Mali, com uma população de cerca de um milhão de pessoas no censo de 2022.