Timbuktu Gives France's President an Ecstatic Welcome

But even as thousands of people gathered outside the mud and wood mosque here to
greet Mr. Hollande, hailing him as the city's, and their country's, savior,
questions remain about what, exactly, France has accomplished aside from chasing
Islamic extremists from the cities and into their desert and mountain redoubts.
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