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Tuareg are distinguished in their native language as the Imouhar, meaning the free people; [citation needed] the overlap of meaning has increased local cultural nationalism. Many Tuareg today are either settled agriculturalists or nomadic cattle breeders, while others are blacksmiths or caravan leaders.
The Tuareg mobilized in Ghat, and Sabha, bringing several hundred of its fighters to Ubari. [ 3 ] On 23 November 2015, Qatar mediated a ceasefire between the Tuareg and Tubu; both groups agreed to withdraw from Ubari, and allowed for Arab tribesmen of the Hasawna tribe to enter the city to act as peacekeepers.
In historical times, Ghat was an important terminal point on a trans-Saharan trade route and a major administrative center in the Fezzan.It was a stronghold for the Kel Ajjer Tuareg federation whose territory covered most of south-western Libya—including Ubari, Sabha and Ghadames, plus south-eastern Algeria (Djanet and Illizi).
Fresh fighting broke out between Mali's army and northern Tuareg rebels on Sunday, with the rebels claiming to have taken control of two army bases in the central town of Lere. The rebel alliance ...
Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen (1880–1919) was the Tuareg leader of the rising against the French. An adherent to the militantly anti-French Sanusiya Sufi religious order, Kaocen was the Amenokal (chief) of the Ikazkazan Tuareg confederation. Kaocen had engaged in numerous, mostly indecisive, attacks on French colonial forces from at least 1909.
Returning first to Ounianga Kabir then the Fezzan (the center of Sanusiya power), Kaocen rallied both tribal subjects and other nomads (not all Tuareg) who were loyal to the Sanusiya. [citation needed] There, in October 1914, the Sanusiya leadership declared a jihad against the French colonialists. In 1916, Kaocen's forces began attacking towns ...
In an interview with ABC News on Thursday, Dauphin's family friends Becky Devereux and Karen Keene, said Drew and his little brother, Matthew, 24, were on Bourbon Street together during the attack.
The Ubari Desert, Idehan Ubari, Idehan Awbari (Idehan means fine sand in Tamasheq [1]) or Ubari Erg is an erg in the hyper-arid Fezzan region of southwestern Libya with a surface area of approximately 58,000 km 2. [2] The area of the Ubari desert has been traditionally inhabited by Tuareg people, a Berber ethnic and traditionally nomadic ...