Africa Uncovered - Shifting sands - 25 Aug 08 - Part 1

Africa Uncovered travels to the Sahara desert in Niger to investigate the battle of ethnic Tuaregs - who have maintained their nomadic existence for thousands of years - against the goverment of Niger and the increasingly harsh environment they live in.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• aljazeera
• africa
• uncovered
• niger
• MNJ
• tuareg
• berber
• sahara
• shifting
• sands

[tamaduni]

WHILE WE AFRICANS ARE BUSY FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER THE REST OF THE WORLD IS STEALING OUR RESOURCES

[az09qwert]

ALL of this because fuckin Europe and America they creating this fuckin situation they take everything and let the people starving then they acting like helping them

[AskariWaryaa]

@GAYJustinBieberGAY Touaregs are ethnic north Africans

Don't type anything if you are completely ignorant of the history and culture.

Arabs are also anciently from Africa!

[GAYJustinBieberGAY]

this is not africans this is arabic people!

[ironfusion]

Power can only happen with unification.

[itchcity]

@jamjr1972 i dont think this has anything to do with your primitive ghost beliefs

[gandhikng]

@tamaduni thank you from and indian

[chaabimaroc]

you forget morocco. is also berber heritage

[Megamediaplex]

It looks like a cultural conflict between indoor and outdoor lifestyles. Natural resource profits can be used to open up desalination facilities, stock reservoirs, and pipelines if the banks don't give out loans.

[TheNubian100]

Africa is life

[flyguyinmotion]

Same old story. Rich resourses and the people live in poverty. Corruption