Timbuktu: Mali's dangerous city of bandits at the end of the world | Sahara (2/3)

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Timbuktu was a dream destination for any traveller brave enough to cross the Sahara. Centuries ago, mythical stories were told about Timbuktu; the streets were said to be paved in gold.
In 2012 the city was taken by an alliance of Tuareg separatists and Ansar Dine Jihadists. They realised the dream of generations of Tuareg nomads: their own state, under the name of Azawad. Ancient tombs were destroyed and for nine months, Timbuktu lived under the strict sharia regime until the French army was brought in to free the city.
We meet the owner of the only bar in Timbuktu, the son of a mixed marriage between a Malian mother and a French soldier. It was this ancestry that saved his life on the day that the Jihadists took over the city. Everyone in Timbuktu has two identities. The local journalist who had to run propaganda for the occupiers to stay alive. The young women who were abused by the Jihadists, but then came back to celebrate and dance to a song that praises the ideals of their abusers.
Timbuktu it seems remains a dangerous city in the grips of an identity crisis.

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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Intro
▷ 01:58 - Bamako, Khaira Arby
▷ 07:19 - Niger, Timbuktu
▷ 09:18 - Tuareg, the blue men of the desert
▷ 11:42 - Father of the Whites
▷ 15:16 - Independent Square, Al Farouk
▷ 18:36 - Jihadist occupation
▷ 33:42 - Nightingale of Timbuktu
▷ 36:00 - Djinguereber Mosque
▷ 43:10 - The Refugees
▷ 49:31 - Credits

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For centuries colonialists have bypassed the Sahara. The largest sand desert on the planet was too hot and too impenetrable. Now, Europe seems to have shifted its southern border to the Sahara in order to stop migration and combat terrorism. How do the inhabitants of the Sahara feel about this interference? In Sahara, a new three episode series, Bram Vermeulen crosses the desert from west to east, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. He experiences the heat, the dangers of advancing jihadism, the desperation of migrants, the hidden world of slavery, uncovers human trafficking networks and he meets with locals in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.

Original title: Timbuktu at the Crossroads - Sahara (2/3)
A film by David Kleijwegt & Erik van Empel
© 2018, Licensed by Sideways Film

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