So you will have to deal with perhaps only one to two hundred Tuaregs.

Tuaregs in neighboring Mali have also been fighting their government over the last few years.

Tuaregs have long controlled smuggling and other black market operations in West Africa.

The defence minister has been replaced, and reprisals have been reported against Tuaregs living in the south.

At last word there were about forty to fifty armed Tuaregs at the target area.

Tuaregs share many elements with northern Berbers concerning the subdivision of the year.

Tuaregs - who traditionally hailed from northern Mali - made up a large portion of his army.

A few dissident Tuaregs fighting on camels with swords.

Tuaregs swarmed in the dark running, Sunni Ali whipping them on.

Tuaregs took up arms again early last year, alleging Bamako had violated a 2006 peace accord meant to develop the north.

President Touré also called on the population to not attack any community after some Tuaregs' properties were attacked in the protests.

An untold number of Tuaregs were killed, Moktar said by telephone Friday.

Many Tuaregs also accuse the Malian forces of ethnically-motivated abuses against them.

Reportedly, dozens of ethnic Tuaregs living in Bamako had their homes raided by government troops.

In 1991, they set up a fragile democracy that endured, despite sporadic rebellion by nomadic Tuaregs up north.

Mali government, Tuaregs reach ceasefire deal 'in principle'

Most Tuaregs I know don't mess with Patek.

Mr. Rabda said he had resigned himself to seeing most Tuaregs eventually give up nomadism.

Insulation works both ways: Bedouins and Tuaregs use wool clothes to keep heat out and protect the body.

Today most Tuaregs are Muslims.

"For the rebels, the blacks and Tuaregs are all pro-Gaddafi and they don't hesitate to shoot at them."

That allowed secular rebel Tuaregs, who have long felt marginalized by Mali's government, to take half of the country's vast north as a new homeland.

Some ethnic groups deprived black Tuaregs of basic civil liberties due to traditional slavery-like practices and hereditary servitude relationships.

The Peuhl killed three Tuaregs.

Tuaregs also reside in Niger, Algeria and Libya.