NIAMEY (Reuters) - Leaders of the Tuareg people in Niger and Mali are urging countrymen who fought in Muammar Gaddafi's army to stay in Libya and rally to its new rulers rather than head south to ...

Obari, Libya "Why are the people in the north getting petroleum when you are living over it and getting nothing?" said Hisham Hamadi. The plump, energetic lawyer was addressing a conference of ...

Richard Bishop (bassist for the Sun City Girls) and Hisham Mayet shot this video documentary at an unnamed music festival in a Saharan trading depot called Ghadames. Their subjects, the Tuareg or Kel ...

As the anniversary of the February 17 uprising against Moammar Gadhafi approaches, Mali and other African states to the south are paying a price for the revolution by Western-backed insurgents in ...

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Tuareg moving global: an introduction / Ines Kohl and Anja Fischer -- Research and nomads in the age of globalization / Anja Fischer -- Tuareg networks: an integrated approach to mobility and stasis / ...

Ubari, a ramshackle desert hub hundreds of miles from Libya’s populous cities on the Mediterranean coast, was once a favored tourist destination, a picturesque pocket of the Sahara with dramatic sand ...

In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the ...

Young girls in colourful dress and traditional jewellery sing at a festival in Libya's Ghadames, an oasis city that was relatively unscathed by the past decade's chaos and is seeking to attract ...

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the ...