Editing Manuscript (section)

==Africa==
{{Main articles|Timbuktu Manuscripts}}
{{See also|West African manuscripts}}
4,203 of [[Timbuktu Manuscripts|Timbuktu's manuscripts]] were burned or stolen during the armed [[conflict in Mali]] between 2012 and 2013. 90% of these manuscripts were saved by the population organized around the NGO "Sauvegarde et valorisation des manuscrits pour la défense de la culture islamique" (SAVAMA-DCI).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Le sort des manuscrits anciens du Mali au centre d'une conférence internationale à Bamako |url=https://news.un.org/fr/story/2015/01/304632 |access-date=25 September 2023 |website=United Nations |date=28 January 2015 |language=Fr}}</ref> Some 350,000 manuscripts were transported to safety, and 300,000 of them were still in [[Bamako]] in 2022.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-01-21 |title=Mali : les précieux manuscrits de Tombouctou – Jeune Afrique |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1275798/culture/mali-les-precieux-manuscrits-de-tombouctou/ |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-21 |title=The Brave Sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara {{!}} Innovators |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140421-haidara-timbuktu-manuscripts-mali-library-conservation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318040104/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140421-haidara-timbuktu-manuscripts-mali-library-conservation |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 March 2021 |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=Culture |language=en}}</ref> An international consultation on the safeguarding, accessibility and promotion of ancient manuscripts in the [[Sahel]] was held at the [[UNESCO]] office in Bamako in 2020.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />