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2012 is the last one they have held. if you go to the material online now for festival in the desert they call themselves festival in exile. because they can t hold this huge annual gathering in mali anymore despite its success because mali has just become too dangerous. in january 2012, which was the year of the last festival, january, the start of the year, islamic extremist rebel groups started basically a lightning takeover of the whole northern part of mali. the most famous place in northern mali is timbuktu. it s so remote so hard to get to that the word timbuktu has long been an english language metaphor that means a very far away place. but timbuktu is a real specific place on the map. it s a unesco world heritage site and once the islamic rebels in mali took over, northern mali, including timbuktu in 2012, they did what terrorist groups like to do now when they

Lightning takeoverRebel groupsJanuary 2012Northern maliIncluding timbuktuUnesco world heritage site