Neil White and Diane English have been living in African adventure.They toured the West of the continent settling in Timbuktu, but it wasn't all together that kind of destination they had imagined.Rebels known as the Tuareg have been fighting a separatist uprising in the North of the country.But at the weekend, Islamists allied to AL-Qaeda over round Timbuktu, forcing the couple from Wales to flee more than a thousand miles overland to neighbouring Mauritania.They've basically tried to leave Timbuktu to Mauritania early that morning at the heart of Timbuktu where they called up a gunfire.And they are returened to their housing Timbuktu, it's basically just hold up.We knew that they are the head of the state, and in fact we're just hours spare incredibly lucky to get out, that their life would have been in serious danger as Whitehead's and in particular as Britain's.This is the guest house, the couple have been running on the edge of the Sahara desert. The manager told us people in Timbuktu are now living in fear."I don't know if AL-Qaeda are outside,but I'm too scared to go out. I'm staying in my house. The hotel's empty now,no one is here,it's closed."Young soldiers tired of the governments inability to deal with the Northern rebels launched a military kill in Mali's capital Bamako a few weeks ago.Ironically,it appears that same rebel group may have helped the British couple escape from troubled Mali. Now in Gulf,in some of the worst instability,the country has seen in decades.
