“Thanks to introductions from my Tuareg friends in Timbuktu, I’m given the warmest of welcomes in M’Bera. Their community is the largest amongst the refugees.
Timia is one of the 90,000 refugees from Mali in this camp which, given the size of its population, is Mauritania’s third largest city after Nouadhibou and Nouakchott.”

Extracts from Retour à Tombouctou, Éditions Gallimard 2015.