In this lonely valley called Tazerzaït, where the Aïr Massif meets the great sand seas of the Sahara, the ... descend from the fierce nomads who for several centuries dominated the lucrative ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A similar story manifested in 1973 when a lone acacia tree, standing as the only one in about 250 miles of the Nigerian Sahara desert ... a wonder for the local nomad tribe, the Tuareg people ...

Tensions are running high. Many Tuareg nomad tribes, who roam the southern Sahara desert spanning the borders of Libya and its neighbours, backed Gaddafi late into the war. The Arab fighters of Zintan ...