Timbuktu’s Hopeful, Troubled Peace
Photographs by Katie Orlinsky, reporting from Mali on a fellowship from the International Reporting Project. For the full story, visit The New Yorker.
A Malian military convoy in downtown Timbuktu.
A wedding celebration.
The Sidi Mahmoud Cemetery, which was destroyed by Islamist militants.
Community leaders leave a ceremony honoring Timbuktu’s Crisis Committee.
A market in Timbuktu.
Badje Sosandis, who returned to Timbuktu this month after fleeing last year's conflict.
Photo: Katie Orlinsky
Celebrating a circumcision.
Children at a Koranic school.
A UN peacekeeping patrol in a Tuareg village.
Flying over Timbuktu.