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Christian Science Monitor
July 28, 2013
“They were too strong,” Timbuktu mayor Ousmane Halle says of the insurgents. Recommended: A fabled city of the Sahara: How much do you know about Timbuktu? But in January after a French-led military action, the radicals were tossed out. Now, six months later, the weary people of northern Mali,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 31, 2013
"People are really scared, but it is mostly due to the lack of information about what is happening in the city," Ousmane Halle, Timbuktu mayor, said. This is the first major attack on the city since it was liberated by French forces on January 28. Earlier this month a suicide bomber detonated himself at aÃâà...
Mail & Guardian Online
January 31, 2013
Timbuktu's mayor, Ousmane Halle Cisse, who has had to remain in Bamako in recent months after making repeated appeals for an international intervention to remove his city's occupiers, said that important manuscripts had been burned in the final week of Islamist rule. The full extent of the damage to theÃâà...
TheBlaze.com
January 28, 2013
Such is the case in Mali, where Islamic terrorists torched the Ahmed Baba Institute, where priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu, including one written in Hebrew, had been preserved for posterity. According to Mayor Ousmane Halle, the library, which housed thousands of invaluable manuscripts dating back toÃâà...
CNN International
July 10, 2012
Members of two Islamist militant groups destroyed tombs at a shrine to Muslim saints Tuesday, according to the mayor of Timbuktu, Mali, and other residents. "The Islamists ordered the people to leave the area before they started smashing the tombs," Mayor Ousmane Halle said. "I saw both members ofÃâà...
CNN
June 30, 2012
Timbuktu Muslims on their way to Friday worship at the tombs were stopped and threatened by armed men from Ansar Dine, a militant group that seeks to impose strict Sharia law, Timbuktu Mayor Ousmane Halle said. "The Islamists have surrounded he tombs with their cars after chasing people away andÃâà...
CNN International
May 5, 2012
Timbuktu Mayor Ousmane Halle said the attackers tore down windows and wooden gates at the grave sites and burned them. Tensions were high in the city, he said. "People are angry, and for a good reason," Halle said. "So far there's been no response from the central government condemning the attack,"Ãâà...
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