Timbuktu suffocates under militia blockade, artillery fire
Mali's ruling junta faces a multitude of security challenges throughout the country and been playing down the situation in Timbuktu.
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Mali's ruling junta faces a multitude of security challenges throughout the country and been playing down the situation in Timbuktu.
City shelled as tens of thousands of people remain almost completely cut off from world and UN peacekeepers withdraw.
The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) announced in a series of messages at the beginning of August that it was declaring "war in the Timbuktu region".
Inhabitants of Timbuktu describe the "truly unbearable" situation of being almost completely cut off from the world for several weeks due to a jihadist blockade