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Timbuktu: 900-year-old ceremony re-consecrates mausoleums destroyed by armed groups

New York, Feb 5 (Just Earth News/IBNS) A consecration ceremony of the Timbuktu mausoleums, last held in the 11th century, was celebrated on Thursday at the initiative of the local community, the final phase of the United Nations-backed cultural rebirth of the age-old Sahara city after the destruction wrought by radical Islamists in 2012.