DJANET, Algeria — In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis ...

Are the Tuareg tribesmen of the Sahara, as many media reports are now intimating, allied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)? This question has become especially pertinent since the abduction of ...

FOR COSMOPOLITAN music lovers, the Tuareg people burst onto the scene in 2001 when their most prominent musical group, Tinariwen, kicked off an internationally acclaimed music festival outside of ...

Over the course of the last week, intercommunal violence within Mali’s northern Menaka region has escalated in dramatic fashion. Dozens of civilians from Tuareg and Fulani communities have been killed ...

Tuareg rebels in northern Mali are closer than ever to the autonomy they have sought since the 1960s. The international community has watched with distress as Tuareg rebels, and a splinter group of ...

Rebels of the nomadic Tuareg people have declared the independence of the remote northern region of Azawad, citing 50 years of bad governance and UN articles on the rights of native people. The ...

Fighters from the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA) in the Menaka area of the Gao region, northern Mali. Two Tuareg militias in northern Mali, the Imghad and Allies Self Defense Movement ...

Malian soldiers and former Tuareg rebels have staged their first joint patrol in northern Mali, a key step in a 2015 peace agreement meant to help calm a region under threat from multiple extremist ...

Tuareg rebels in northern Mali have claimed to have seized control of a military camp and posts in the town of Bourem after weeks of fighting against the national army and Wagner mercenaries, ...