Mali music festival draws thousands

Often described as one of the world's most authentic music festivals, the Desert Festival of Mali has been held in the city of Timbuktu since 2001.

Now in its 11th year, the festival faces security challenges, as the region has seen an increasing amount of hostage takings and other dangerous action.

Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.

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[mongoliandude]

I have 412 characters remaining in this message, but all I wanted to saw was:

Fuck bono

[dustiis71]

How does Bono turn up everywhere? You're not a real third world.country til he does a.charity.concert! LOL.

[yourtreat2]

MY CAMEL LIKE ROCK MUSIC.

[MrDestruction25]

@ReturnoftheBrotha cHCK MY CHANNEL BROTHA AND I AGREE WITH YOU.

[ReturnoftheBrotha]

@TheMutification: There is no "Sahara region" - just a desert. Mali is a part of that. Did you not hear the guy in the video?

[TheMutification]

@ReturnoftheBrotha Sub-saharan literally means Below the Saharan region.

[whiteboygotswagg]

im the 4th MALI

[DarthClam]

mali

[franklindavid]

Without Bono those people will be playing the middle finger fiddle.

[DAFUNK213]

Fuck Bono.That dick always has to stick his nose in.I cant stand him,there was a time when I loved him and his band then I got some taste.