The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Since 2001, the gatherings have been held to celebrate the culture of the semi-nomadic Tuareg people. More than 2 million Tuaregs live in the Sahara Desert area, stretching across Niger, Mali ...

There is something undeniably romantic about the sounds of Touareg music in the Saha-ra desert. Among scrubby trees and camel-leather tents, under a vertical volcanic peak and a canopy of stars ...

Romanticized by European colonizers as fierce, camel-riding warriors swathed in indigo veils, the semi-nomadic Tuareg people of North and West Africa for centuries coaxed a livelihood from their ...

Tuareg flock to Algerian desert oasis for ancient festival. Djanet (Algeria) (AFP) – In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the ...

For myself I was disappointed that the twilight dance of Tuareg shepherds was mysteriously dropped. But the hundreds of Tuareg who made the long journey to Essouk undoubtedly loved almost every moment ...

When Traveler contributing writer Donovan Webster and his son James traveled to Niger late last year for the annual Tuareg Festival, they managed to get prime seats for the festival’s main event ...