Such accounts have won him sympathizers among Timbuktu's minority Arab community, which in turn has angered the city's dominant ethnic groups, the Tuareg and Songhai. Up on the roof the ...

The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai Empire and their Warrior King, Sonni Ali, descended from the fishing tribes of the Niger River. He captured Timbuktu and the other cities along ...

The Songhai army./Ph. DR Judar and his invading ... De Graft Johnson Judar took control of the city and advanced toward Timbuktu and Djenné, controlling trans-Saharan trade routes, as planned ...