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Get the Timbuktu Cercle, Tombouctou local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the Tombouctou, Tombouctou local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Timbuktu features a hot desert climate (BWh) according to the Köppen Climate Classification. The weather is extremely hot and dry throughout much of the year, with most of the city's rainfall occurring between June and September due to the influence of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
These climates are in the polar front region in winter, and thus have moderate temperatures and changeable, rainy weather. Summers are hot and dry, due to the domination of the subtropical high-pressure systems, except in the immediate coastal areas, where summers are milder due to the nearby presence of cold ocean currents that may bring fog ...
[51] [52] [53] Droughts and food shortages have been also linked to the Mali War. [54] [55] The Sahel is experiencing more severe weather due to climate change, exemplified by the extreme heatwave of March-April 2024 in Burkina Faso and Mali. This event was intensified by a 1.2°C global temperature increase from human activities. [56]
He travelled in May, the hottest month of the year when the average maximum temperature in Timbuktu soars to 43–44 °C. [4] He left Timbuktu with a caravan of 600 camels [5] transporting gold, slaves, ivory, gum arabic, ostrich-feathers and cloth. The caravan mostly travelled at night and took six days to reach Araouane, where it stopped for ...
The ICC, the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, has been examining events in Mali since 2012. French and Malian troops pushed the rebels back the following year.
A map showing the route from Timbuktu to Taoudenni is included here. The article is also available from the Internet Archive. Hunwick, John O. (2003), Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other contemporary documents, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 90-04-12560-4. First published in 1999 as ISBN 90-04-11207-3.