| Araouane | |
  Araouane
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| Country |  Mali |
| Region | Tombouctou Region |
| Cercle (district): | Essouk |
Araouane is a village in the Malian Sahara in eastern Mali, lying 270 km north of Timbuktu on the road to Taoudenni. Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali is a Landlocked nation in Western Africa. |||} Mali is divided into eight Regions and one capital district. Tombouctou is the largest northern-most region of Mali, comprised mostly of the Southwestern section of the Sahara Desert. |||} A Cercle is the second level administrative unit in Mali. Essouk is a commune in Mali 's northern Kidal Region. Oral tradition holds that Boctou foundress of Tomboctou, was originally from Essouk Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali is a Landlocked nation in Western Africa. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali is a Landlocked nation in Western Africa. Timbuktu ( Timbuctoo; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African Taoudenni is a remote village in northern Mali known for its Salt mines The salt is mined and quarried from ancient dry Lake beds by hand using It is a former oasis and is still a station on trans-Saharan trade routes. In Geography, an oasis (plural oases) or Cienega ( Southwestern United States) is an isolated area of vegetation in a Desert, typically Trans-Saharan trade is trade across the Sahara between Mediterranean countries and West Africa. Formerly known for its scholars, particularly Ahmad Baba al Massufi, who was born there, it has declined in recent centuries. Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as Ahmad Baba redirects here For the Algerian musician see Ahmad Baba Rachid. Its mosque is now buried in sand to its minaret. A "mosque" in English refers to all types of buildings dedicated for Islamic worship although there is a distinction in Arabic between the smaller privately owned mosque and the larger For the mountain formation see Minarets (California. Minarets ( Arabic manara (lighthouse منارة but more usually مئذنة Restoration of the town began in the early 1990s, but was severely disrupted by the Tuareg Rebellion. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999
In early 1990, the town was surrounded by a 3/4 circle of sand dunes, about 20m high. The sand was falling from these dunes continuously, slowly burying the town. There were no houses to be seen within the circle, only rooftops could be seen. People living in Araoune were actually living underground, stepping into their houses as one would step into a cellar.
Author and adventurer Ernst Aebi invested a significant amount of money and time into the project of regenerating this village. An account of his time there is recorded in his book Seasons of Sand.
Local NGO "Araouane Action" and the Italian multicultural association "Les Cultures" are active in the village.
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