DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on ...

Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation of Islam.

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It attracted scholars and visitors to Mali. People came from Ethiopia, Andalusia (southern Spain), Arabia and Turkey. From the late 1200s to the early 1300s, the city became part of the Mali ...

Mali’s conflict erupted following ... Moussa Moriba Diakité, head of Djenne’s cultural mission which strives to preserve the city’s heritage, said there are other challenges beyond security ...