But his affinity for the place wasn't primarily spiritual: Agadez is also one of the centers of a historically powerful Nigerien Tuareg community that's long struggled to reach an accommodation ...

In the past 30 years, it has also experienced two bloody Tuareg rebellions. The most recent, which ended a decade ago, left an abiding scar across the largest of Niger’s eight regions ...

one of the most noble Tuareg clans in the Sahara - so we're feeling totally safe. Agadez is an ancient desert city, a crossroads for great caravans of camels and these days, for people traffickers.

The statement did not reproduce the comments attributed to Attaf, but accused Algerian authorities of bias in favour of the Tuareg rebels in the north of Mali. The Tuareg people are among the ...