Timbuktu mausoleum suspect facing war crimes trial

In the first case of its kind, a suspected Islamist militant accused of destroying historic monuments in the city of Timbuktu in Mali is to face charges of war crimes.

The International Criminal Court said Ahmad al-Mahdi al-Faqi, also known as Abu Tourab, had been surrendered to The Hague by Niger.

He is charged with the destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in the historic African city in 2012.

Anna Holligan reports.