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 ...
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Tinariwen went from Saharan weddings to Grammy-winning acclaim – but violence has forced the desert blues masters into exile. Now, a new generation is stepping in to help ...
The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects that ...
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 ...
The Berlin conference on Libya has taken place and the country is now preparing for its 24 December presidential election. Meanwhile, Marshal Khalifa Haftar – commander-in-chief of the Libyan National ...