MALI'S MOANS

Timbuktu's destroyed shrine

Bamako : The International Criminal Court said it was investigating several potential war crimes including murder in Mali, months after finding an ex-militant guilty-

Liable for millions worth of damage in the landlocked country.

''Our investigations are continuing in [other] crimes -sexual crimes and crimes against  peacekeepers,...........killing all those,'' ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told reporters in Bamako.

The Hague-based tribunal said in August the ex-militant Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi caused 2.7 million euros worth of damage, when he destroyed several fabled shrines of Timbuktu, in northern Mali-

During the militant takeover there in 2012.

The judges further ordered that the Malian state as well as the international community be compensated with symbolic amount of one euro for the damages suffered.