News

In 1998, French entrepreneur Jean-Yves Brizot formed a Tuareg silver guild in Agadez, Niger. The jewelry caught the eye of Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès, the Parisian design house.
Overdubs were kept to a bare minimum, but they did add in group vocals from singers back home in Niger. “These are songs about what’s happening to the Tuareg people and what’s happening in ...
Johannesburg — In a rare acknowledgment, Russia's private mercenary army PMC Wagner said Monday that it had suffered heavy losses in fighting against a Tuareg ... Faso and Niger have all had ...
The region is a former stronghold of a rebellion by militants in the Tuareg ethnic group who are ... in the camps such as money and valuable jewelry,” he said. Mali and its neighbors Burkina Faso and ...
The Tuareg are a semi-nomadic people of Berber descent who practice Islam and whose traditional desert homeland stretches across parts of Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. The annual ...
dances and oral traditions of the nomadic Tuareg culture to an audience of thousands -- and a burst of hope for jihadist-scarred Niger. The eagerly-awaited three-day party unfolded in Iferouane ...
Eine ethnologische Studie über die handwerklichen Praktiken der endogamen Handwerkergruppe der inadan Tuareg des Aïr in Niger" (Craft as social practice. An anthropological study of the craft ...
transported from the Libyan south-west by Tuareg fighters and traffickers, were moved along the Algerian and Nigerien borders. They were transported along the roads that cross the Agadez, Tahoua and ...
Niamey - Ten Tuareg rebels were killed and many others wounded in the last three weeks of March in strikes against mountain hideouts in Niger, a spokesperson for the country's armed forces said on ...
But once a year north Niger’s traditional gateway to the Sahara, known for its salt flats, is the gathering point for the Cure Salee festival of Tuareg and Wodaabe pastoralists. The festival ...