In the heart of the Sahara Desert and amidst of some of the world’s biggest uranium reserves, terrorists, smugglers and bandits threaten to seize control of northern parts of Mali and Niger.
Mali: Tuareg Nomads of the Sahara
Published September 13, 2011
Peter Gwin discusses his reporting on PRI's The World
The Tuareg are a nomadic desert people not confined by international boundaries. They roam over parts of several countries, including Algeria, Niger, Mali and Libya. Several thousand of them fought in Muammar Qaddafi's army. Now, many--even those who did not fight--have been forced to flee Libya.
Peter Gwin visited Tuareg areas this summer and writes about the Sahara’s Tuareg in this month’s National Geographic.
See related slideshow from National Geographic's Brent Stirton.
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Pulitzer Center grantee Peter Gwin awarded the Lowell Thomas Award for travel journalism for his article "The Telltale Scribes of Timbuktu".
The collapse of the Qaddafi regime delights many Libyans but holds the risk of ongoing instability for much of the rest of the region as mercenaries he recruited are deserting him and heading home.
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Peter Gwin has been a staff writer at National Geographic since 2003. He has reported on modern pirates in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age graveyard in the Sahara, early tyrannosaurs in Western...
