Tuareg jewelry, an integral part of Sahara's Tuareg people's cultural heritage, is known for its intricate designs and ...

Judy Woodruff: Now we turn to Mali, the West African nation that's home to over a half-a-million Tuareg people. They are an ethnic group that has controlled the trade routes in the Sahara Desert ...

For two millenniums, the nomadic Tuareg people have wandered the Sahara of North Africa. Tinariwen, a Tuareg blues rock collective, chronicles life in the desert and the plight of those displaced ...

“A house is a coffin for the living.”-- Tuareg proverb * Romanticized by European colonizers as fierce, camel-riding warriors swathed in indigo veils, the semi-nomadic Tuareg people of North ...

THE TUAREG speak Tamasheq, part of the Berber language group. They are a majority Muslim group of a million-and-a-half people living in Niger, Mali, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso.

For centuries the nomadic Tuareg have roamed across the deserts of West Africa, but severe drought is making that way of life impossible to maintain. Now they are settling down — and trying to ...

The struggle of the Tuareg people of Mali to hold onto their nomadic traditions is the subject of Isabella Sandri's poignant docu "The Sand Raft." First wracked by drought and then victimized by ...

"Tuareg music tradition is as old as the Tuareg people," he says. In Algeria, he discovered a relative's electric guitar. "I was obsessed by my first touch," he says.

In the '80s, the Tuareg people of West Africa rebelled against Mali. The struggle has been violent, but one group put down its weapons to combine traditional music with electric guitars. Hear an ...

Such axioms about what remains essential have helped the Tuareg people survive for centuries in the desert. This maxim could also describe Terakaft’s pared-down music.“We focus on rhythm, ...

Mali’s Tuareg rebels, who have seized control of the country’s distant north in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup in the capital, declared independence Friday of the Azawad nation.