Now, the Timbuktu mayor said, the links with these places are gone and ???commerce has died.??? The city depends on goods arriving from Bamako ??? a two-day journey on poor roads ??? which has played a key role in driving prices up. ???Timbuktu cannot survive without the Tuaregs and Arabs,??? said Alpha Saloum Maiga, who manages the hotel where the governor and other officials reside. ???We need t