What has happened to the city of Timbuktu in modern times?

Timbuktu was captured by the French in 1894. They partly restored the city from the desolate condition in which they found it, but no connecting railway or hard-surfaced road was built. In 1960 it became part of the newly independent Republic of Mali. Timbuktu is now an administrative centre of Mali.

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