Thursday, March 7, 2013

Good News from Mali, for a change

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/majority-of-timbuktu-manuscripts-were-smuggled-to-safety-a-885408.html
It appears that 80% of the manuscripts from the Timbuktu library were saved when German diplomats helped evacuate them from the area before the Islamist fighters could burn them.

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