Possible Clues:

• Where the Senegal River begins
• Timbuktuís land
• Landlocked African nation west of Niger
• It was once French Sudan
• Site of the Sundiata epic
• Sudanese Republic, formerly
• Land single blow from the right
• African country that anagrams to "lima"
• Country to overthrow religion - but it hasn't succeeded
• Where Timbuktu isn't far away