So to see a nomad sell his last camel is like watching someone sell their house and car, liquidate their 401(k) and empty their bank account all at once, just to buy groceries. Such fire sales are ...

Hussein, who comes from generations of nomads and has no last name ... a bright scarlet blanket over his shoulder. Somane unties a camel, then places two woven straw mats on its back, securing ...

The Story of the Weeping Camel (90 minutes ... playing and eating together were suggested by the team's outline, the nomads themselves had ultimate creative control. "My whole approach working ...

Ultimately, the beasts file through the gates of the Hargeisa Camel Market. No one really runs the market. It’s just one of dozens of sites across the country where nomads, locals, and traders ...

Nomads still lead camel caravans from Timbuktu to Taoudenni, going days without passing a town or a tree or a bush or a blade of needle-sharp desert grass. They pass endless sand dunes and rocky ...

There's a pile of droppings by the scoreboard table. But no camel. No Nomad, the 1,200-pound creature with long, gentle eyelashes and a coat that feels like a wool sweater. The man, whose name is ...

"With them, we survived," he said, lifting his chin toward his camels. This relationship, this love between nomad and camel, began thousands of years ago in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula.

Hussein, too, couldn't picture nomads taking up fishing in a hurry: "Here, the camel is king," he said, chuckling.

The milk project had revealed the chasm in the thinking and culture between the Raika and rural life in Rajasthan on the one hand, and academically trained animal experts and urban India on the ...

SAKABAL, Niger — In a part of the world where the worth of a man is measured by his animals, Tuareg nomad Soumaila Wantala has come to this market to do the unthinkable: Sell his last camel.