Tuareg

"Step in my steps, " he cautions, noting that the Niger army had mined the area, where there had been a school for Tuareg.

As the debate stretched into the night, a towering Tuareg man came over to ask if I and my security advisor were tired.

Yet talk of Tuareg uprisings is often overstated.

and in a wilderness of sand a pair of Tuareg boys produced from their robes a bag of dates and a small blue teapot, which restored him.

In his travels, Mr. Halil began to notice the stream of geologists from France, China, Canada and Australia into Tuareg grazing lands.

In the kitchen, a northern fighter and a Tuareg man chatted over the sink, sleeves pulled up, while washing dishes.

At the end of the last Tuareg rebellion in 1995, many former rebels were brought into the Niger military as part of the peace settlement.

Yes, I said, but given the Tuareg history of betrayal and infighting, could the West trust them?

The Tuareg live and sleep in the tents. Tuareg tents are usually made of animal skins, but today some Tuareg have plastic tents.

His Tuareg captors had never beaten him and had allowed him to receive a letter from his parents via the Red Cross at the end of Ramadan.

The Tuareg men have many customs about their faces. They start to cover their faces at age 25. They do not cover their faces for friends.

The next day I am to travel farther into the mountains to join another group of Tuareg rebels.

The late Libyan leader backed, then helped negotiate the end of, Tuareg rebellions against the governments in Niamey and Bamako.

In the shade of their tent, members of a Tuareg family doze through midday heat near Timbuktu in drought-stricken Mali.

Today, many Tuareg do not live in the desert. Countries around the Sahara Desert do not want groups of people going from place to place.

Ghoumir is a Tuareg, the rugged Saharans who live mostly across the loose borders of Mali, Niger, Algeria, and western Libya.

But in recent decades, as less and less rain fell during the wet seasons, Tuareg families struggled to sustain sizable herds.

During the 1990s a Tuareg militia, many of its members trained and armed by Qaddafi, fought the Niger army over the issue.

One concern is security as the pipeline could a target for Tuareg rebels and Al-Qaeda in North Africa.

Founded by Tuareg herders, Timbuktu still counts the livestock trade among its primary sources of income.

Tuareg cavalryman seldom reveals his face, even to a blood brother.

Evening winds stir the robes of a Tuareg striding across Algeria's Tassili-n-Ajjer.

Some Tuareg acquired high-tech weapons during Libya's civil war, and may have taken them home.

The military have controlled access to the area since a rebellion by the nomadic Tuareg people began in 2007.

Furthermore Tuareg returning from Libya are mostly from Niger.

For all their swagger and Star Wars-style dress, the Tuareg are not numerous.

The Tuareg rebellion has been happening on and off in Mali for many years. But Mr. Pascoe says the new weapons have changed the situation.

Fighters from the Tuareg ethnic group of Niger and Mali have also joined up, according to BBC reports.

A DNA test showed that he is descended from the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.

There's Tuareg shoes from North Africa.

"It is about the Tuareg struggle, " another rebel says.

Muzabu minorities and the Tuareg ethnic group.

The Tuareg women have a lot of freedom. They decide important things about their lives.

The Tuareg live in groups of four or five families. Everybody helps each other.

These are the Tuareg nomads, and they're living their lives much as they have for centuries.

Tuareg rebels and al-Qaeda unite to create a fierce new state in the north