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Camel caravans fading from salt trade as Timbuktu slowly modernizes

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TIMBUKTU, MALI — The glittering slabs of white salt had been brought here across more than 400 miles of Sahara, as they always have. Al-Hussein Boubakar, their purveyor, was haggling with a customer, as he always does.

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