The Festival grew out of an organic need for the nomadic Tuareg tribes to meet regularly and do the things that their society required. |
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It's an opportunity for them to maintain cultural links with the other Tuareg populations in Niger, Algeria, Libya and Mauritania. |
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Nowadays, however, more Tuareg recognize the importance of formal education. |
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To promote literacy among rural adults, alphabets have been created for the Malinke, Bamana, Fulfulde, Songhai, and Tuareg languages. |
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However the Berber Tuareg of Algeria seem to stand as mute witnesses to the passage of time. |
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No one lives here, no one could live here, and even the Tuareg of the region treat it with an awed respect. |
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Proper Tuareg riding saddles are placed in front of the camel's hump and you sit cross-legged with your bare feet resting on the camel's neck. |
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The pressure to Arabize was resisted by Berber population groups, such as the Kabyles, the Chaouia, the Tuareg, and the Mzabt. |
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Several years ago the Tuareg people built a small viewing facility about 250 meters from the water hole to attract tourists. |
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In 1808 the chief of Gobir and his Tuareg allies were defeated, and the Shehu founded the Sokoto caliphate, whose influence is still felt today. |
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The Tuareg are best known for the men's practice of veiling their faces with a blue cloth dyed with indigo. |
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Most agricultural communities do have some livestock, but the Fulbe and Tuareg of the northern regions are considered real pastoralists. |
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But he also became part of a movement to create an entirely new sort of Tuareg music. |
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The smiths, resplendent in the full panoply of Tuareg costume, had organised a dance in a dusty street that backed onto the hotel kitchen. |
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The herdsmen and traders of the great Tuareg confederation are found in the south. |
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They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara. |
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Five days later, he came upon a group of Tuareg nomads, who took him on camelback to a nearby village. |
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It is believed that the Tuareg are descendants of the North African Berbers, and that they originated in the Fezzan region of Libya. |
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The major language of the Tuareg is Tamacheq, which is in the Berber language group. |
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But in an unexpected twist of fate, the Tuareg rebels refused to accept the peace deal signed by the Niger authorities. |
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The 'group' headed out to Niger to record an album with the former Tuareg freedom fighter, Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou. |
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Fans of Tuareg music were royally treated at the end of 2006 with a whole series of interesting new releases. |
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Many of the Tuareg also speak Songhay, Hausa, and French, and read Arabic. |
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Ouadnagim is a Tuareg community of 1500 people who live in the Sahel desert on the far side of Timbuktu. |
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Mr ag Ghali may also be wary of the Arab jihadists' influence on the largely Tuareg rebels. |
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Three times in the past two decades, Mali's army fought separatist fighters from the local Tuareg people to a draw. |
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Azawad being the Tuareg name for the northern half of Mali, which is said to be around the size of Texas. |
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The combustible mix of AQIM, Ansar al Dine, and Tuareg rebels is complex and dangerous. |
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It is, however, important to note that Burkina Faso has members of parliament and Government ministers of Tuareg and Fulani ethnicity. |
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Burkina Faso recognizes the presence of Tuareg and Fulani peoples in part of its territory. |
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A lot of young Tuareg musicians now compose with a bass guitar and drums or meet with western artists. |
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You'll spy Tuareg camel trains en route to Marrakesh, eat Berber cuisine and sleep in tents or under the stars. |
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Take the Tuareg rebels, whose 2012 rebellion precipitated the fall of northern Mali to al-Qaeda-linked extremists. |
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Although peace has been restored in the north following the Tuareg rebellion, security conditions in these regions are still a cause for concern. |
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Mr Sidibé's passion for advancing global health began in his native Mali, where he took up the cause of the nomadic Tuareg people. |
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The Tuareg see how their lands are reducing and how they become more and more uninhabitable. |
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Finally, the Tuareg rebels in Mali and Niger continue to destabilize central power, despite the 2006 signing of the Algiers Accords. |
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While in Mali, Artcirq also visited Tuareg nomadic camps to become better acquainted with desert culture. |
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The mix of al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Ansar al Dine, and the Tuareg rebels is combustible. |
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The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane. |
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Lankester said that many of his Tuareg employees have left Timbuktu, Gao, and the surrounding cities. |
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Although French efforts at subjugation began before 1900, dissident ethnic groups, especially the Tuareg, were not conquered until the early twentieth century. |
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The authors round out their story by recounting the history of the people who have claimed this land, including the Chaamba, the Moors, the Tubu, and the Tuareg. |
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Oxfam reported that nomads in Niger such as the Tuareg and Fulani, who make up about 20 percent of Niger's 12.9 million population, are facing particular difficulties. |
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In the remote areas, Arab and Tuareg family values and culture shine. |
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When I turned round, I found that a group of Tuareg men had drawn up. |
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There ethnicity was reinforced by later migrations between 800-1200 AD when the Air mountains may have fallen into the possession of new Tuareg tribes. |
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The Tuareg nomads continue to inhabit and move across wide Sahara surfaces to the present day. |
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The Sahel and southern Sahara regions were home to several independent states or to roaming Tuareg clans. |
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The Tuareg Berber languages are notably more conservative than those of the coastal cities. |
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The Ouladnagim Tuareg community of Timbuktu has now its own website: www. |
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Tamashek is a division of Tuareg, the southern branch of Berber, which is part of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic family of languages. |
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Musically open-minded, the sound moves away from Ishumar music, the theme tune of the Tuareg rebellion, yet retains the same poetic, militant edge. |
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With regard to the Tuareg question, the representative of Mali confirmed that negotiations were continuing within the framework of the Algiers Agreement. |
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The MNLA is as riven internally as the termite mounds that dot the region, and its infiltration by AQIM is well-established, however much a majority of Tuareg rebels may loathe the jihadist cause. |
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Mr Sidibé began his career in global health and development when he became concerned with the health and welfare of the nomadic Tuareg people in the Timbuktu region of his native Mali. |
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The Tuareg have a king who decides the fate of the tribe and is known as Amenokal. |
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In comparison, in the Tuareg culture, the woman chooses her future husband. |
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Breaking off into working groups, Tuareg, Arab, Songhai, Fulani and Bambara dignitaries pondered sticking points, such as cantonment and the return of basic services to the country's north. |
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Interestingly enough, a song on the new album pays tribute to Mano Dayak, the Tuareg opinion leader from Niger who has published a number of seminal tomes on culture and politics. |
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The young nurtured rebellious ideas and a veritable civil war broke out between 1990 and 1996 involving the Tuareg, the Malian Army and the Songhai Black militia, resulting in thousands of deaths. |
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For Shindouk, a Tuareg in rural Mali and the main character of the documentary firm produced by CERN and ICVolunteers last year, volunteers can fill in and make happen things others did not do. |
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Two rival Libyan tribes, the Tuareg and Toubou, have signed a ceasefire deal in Doha to end months of fighting, Qatar state media has reported. |
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Omara Moctar, aka Bombino, belongs to the nomadic Tuareg community of Agadez, Niger's largest city. |
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This article examines the Tuareg myths which form a large part of Libyan novelist's Ibrahim al-Koni's work. |
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And it is true that in using his guitar to explore traditional Songhai, Fula and Tuareg rhythms, or those of the river spirits, the Ghimbala, Ali Farka reopened the never-ending musical path of tradition. |
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However, Tuareg and Bella women delicately embroider some of their clothes and the blankets, wall-hangings and cushions that decorate their homes. |
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After Gaddafi fell many Tuareg fighters loyal to the former dictator fled the country, returning to Mali, and have been central to the initial collapse of the Mali government in the north. |
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The Tuareg of the Sahel, to take only one example, are forsaking their nomadic trading and herding lifestyle, as mechanized transport becomes the preferred means of pan-Saharan travel. |
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At least 16 civilians were reportedly extrajudicially executed by the army and two journalists, both prisoners of conscience, were arrested for their alleged links with the Tuareg armed movement. |
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While still a child, Ousmane witnessed the outbreak of the Tuareg war in 1990, and was sent into hiding in the mountains with the women of his village. |
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Reporting on the Tuareg uprising in the north of the country has become an absolute taboo for the government, especially in the run-up to the 2009 presidential election. |
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The Forum drew upon the peace momentum of the 'Flame of Peace' ceremony at which the Government of Mali destroyed some 3,000 weapons voluntarily surrendered by the Tuareg rebels. |
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What can we say then about French interests in Niger, linked to the stockpiling of uranium, which is stirring up a war among the Tuareg and thus favouring the people traffickers? |
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According to Spain, the increase in Polo production in Bratislava would have been accommodated within the plant by building the production lines for the Tuareg to a piece of land next to the existing plant perimeter. |
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He further enjoyed participating in the release of many hostages held by the Tuareg rebels in Niger and Mali, two bordering countries convulsed by an armed rebellion in their respective northern regions. |
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In certain societies this rule is valid to this day, as with the Tuareg slavery which is still unofficially practiced, and their slaves have to go barefoot. |
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I'd like to remind you that Mali has never been at war with the Tuareg who are a community like the Bambaras, Sonrhais, Soninkes, Peuls or the Malinkes. |
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Timbuktu has been the scene of reprisal attacks by black Malians against Arab and Tuareg residents accused of supporting the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels. |
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The best known are the Moroccan music, the popular Gasba, Kabyle and Chawi music of Algeria, and the widespread Tuareg music of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali. |
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The nature of the mother's death, in particular, symbolises the tearing apart of the Tuareg ways of life given that the Tuareg trace descent matrilineally. |
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A local official said gunmen from the Toubou and Tuareg minorities fought in the oasis city of Sabha in the Sahara, displacing hundreds of families. |
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