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ICC to Decide If Malian Teacher Will Face Charges for Destroying Timbuktu Artifacts
Malian citizen Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi will appear at a hearing on Tuesday to determine whether he will become the first person to be charged at the International Criminal Court with destroying cultural artifacts.
Militants Overrun UN Base in Timbuktu in Latest Attack in Mali
Early Friday morning unidentified assailants infiltrated the base in the city and attacked an army base nearby. A series of recent attacks and kidnappings in West Africa have put the region on edge.
Mali Militant Will be First to Face International Charges for Destroying Historic Sites
In the first case of its kind, the International Criminal Court arrested a Malian rebel accused of attacking historic religious monuments in the ancient city of Timbuktu.
VICE News Capsule: Thursday, January 29
Thousands of child soldiers to be freed in South Sudan, a former al Shabaab chief explains his defection, Shell will invest $11 billion in Iraq, and Mali struggles to preserve ancient texts from Timbuktu.
Meet the Filmmaker Who Got a Ten-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes
We talked to Abderrahmane Sissako about his new film, "Timbuktu," a much-lauded humanist drama set against the sharia occupation of Northern Mali in 2012.
Tuareg Refugees Must Choose Between Hunger and Violence
About 12,000 refugees displaced from Mali by two years of conflict find themselves in Burkina Faso, facing violence, famine, and disease.
Africa's Biggest Film Festival Isn't Scared of a Little Jihad
While French troops were killing Islamists in Mali last month, thousands of film fans were gathering just a few hundred miles away in Burkina Faso to celebrate the best of African cinema. The festival has been running since 1969, but they still haven’t...