Similar words: stuart, estuary, actuary, mortuary, statuary, obituary, estuarine, electuary. Meaning: n. 1. a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara 2. the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg.
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1 The Tuareg are determined to continue doing what they know and love best-going on camel safaris.
2 Tuareg men marry women from the group . They often marry cousins.
3 Founded by Tuareg herders, Timbuktu still counts the livestock trade among its primary sources of income.
4 "Animals are everything to a Tuareg, " an elderly nomad once explained to me. "We drink their milk, we eat their meat, we use their skin[sentencedict.com], we trade them.
5 Tuareg cavalryman seldom reveals his face, even to a blood brother.
6 The Tuareg women have a lot of freedom . They decide important about their lives.
7 At the end of the last Tuareg rebellion in 1995, many former rebels were brought into the Niger military as part of the peace settlement.
8 Countless generations of Tuareg warriors ruled this realm, demanding tribute from merchants plying the caravan routes and raiding sedentary tribes along the Niger River for animals and slaves.
9 Those governments generally ignored their fractious Tuareg minorities, leaving them to wander the desert with their flocks of camels and goats.
10 "It is about the Tuareg struggle, " another rebel says.
11 In a show of goodwill the Tuareg released all of their prisoners—except one.
12 The Tuareg there will say bad things about us—that we are not fighting, that we will betray them, that our leaders are corrupt.
13 Yes, I said, but given the Tuareg history of betrayal and infighting, could the West trust them?
14 Some of their cheeks are stained with indigo dye from their turbans,[www.Sentencedict.com] an age-old mark of the Tuareg that led early visitors to dub them the "blue men."
15 This genetic grab bag suggests one of the riddles of the Tuareg, who have always considered themselves a people apart yet for centuries took slaves from other desert tribes and intermarried with them.
16 Such desert sites are too remote to be damaged by graffiti, though wars involving the local Tuareg have resulted in some being shot up or smashed apart for sale to foreign collectors.
17 A DNA test showed that he is descended from the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.
18 "Step in my steps, " he cautions, noting that the Niger army had mined the area, where there had been a school for Tuareg.
19 In the shade of their tent, members of a Tuareg family doze through midday heat near Timbuktu in drought-stricken Mali.
20 This rebellion is the latest in a series of uprisings led by the Tuareg.
21 "We also used Qaddafi, " one rebel says, noting that Tuareg from Mali and Niger had smuggled weapons from the camps to fight their governments at home.
22 As teenagers they had heard radio broadcasts of Qaddafi sympathizing with the plight of the Tuareg and exhorting them to come to Libya, where he would help them fight for their rights.
23 The late Libyan leader backed, then helped negotiate the end of, Tuareg rebellions against the governments in Niamey and Bamako.
24 The chalkboards are covered with graffiti left by the Nigerien soldiers—French profanities and cartoons depicting Tuareg having sex with animals.
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