According to the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, rebels in Mali who have control of Timbuktu can buy a child soldier for $600 and a wife for less than $1,000. They are paying the families, many of whom are extremely poor, to take the children and women away. The full story is on Yahoo News.
They have also imposed an extreme version of sharia law, which affects women disproportionately badly, and the food situation is bad as the infrastructure is disrupted.
The northern part of the country, including Timbuktu, has been re-named Azawad by the rebels, while the smaller, southern part of the country, which includes the capital Bamako, is still known as Mali.
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