VIDEO: Illegal smuggling rife in Timbuktu

How Timbuktu saved its manuscripts from jihadists

The BBC's Caroline Hawley explains the significance of a case at the International Criminal Court concerning the destruction of cultural heritage.

Earlier last month the National Electoral Commission (NEC) released a set of schedules for two major events regarding the October General Election.

High tariffs on many goods in Tunisia make it profitable to bring everything in across the border, as Leana Hosea reports.

Some of the illegal miners who stayed inside an abandoned gold mine near Johannesburg have emerged, but an unknown number remain underground.

Criminal gangs are targeting Johannesburg's disused gold mines, as well as the remaining working shafts.

Sat, May 23, 2015
2pm6:45pm
LOCATION:Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose CinemasRUN TIME: 97minRATED: PG-13FORMAT: DCPGENERAL ADMISSION: $14CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $9 (Movie Moguls free)SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu) BUY TICKETSPart of DanceAfrica 2015 and BAMcinématek series FilmAfrica

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako | 2014With Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri
Not far from Timbuktu, Kidane and his family live peacefully in...

>The government is planning to conduct an extensive research to determine why the number of elephants that do not develop tusks has been increasing in the recent years.

Sudan is still failing to embrace its ethnic and religious diversity