* Main Niger Tuareg rebel groups, government agree peace * Rebel group says formal peace deal should follow * Libyan-sponsored talks are first in two-year rebellion TRIPOLI, April 7 (Reuters) - ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Mali and Niger have agreed a comprehensive peace deal with Tuareg rebel groups under which 1,100 fighters have already laid down their arms, said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who ...

INTIKANE, Niger, May 7 (UNHCR) - The long column of animals - flanked by men sitting high in the saddle - headed eastwards at a steady pace, raising clouds of dust on the trek towards new pastures. It ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) – A Tuareg rebel leader who belonged to Moammar Gadhafi’s inner circle and who led the last Tuareg uprising in the West African nation was arrested overnight in Niger’s capital, a ...

The three member states of the Alliance of Sahel States have announced their immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute and ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Tuareg rebels fighting the government of Niger released their last hostage on Sunday, an interior minister said on state TV. The state television station broadcast images of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Omara “Bombino” ...

Omara "Bombino" Moctar is out with his seventh album, Sahel, which is named after his homeland. On the project he pays tribute to his fellow Tuareg, who are indigenous to the eponymous African region ...

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 town deep in the ...

Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics ...