The Almoravid ("those who have made a religious retreat") movement developed early in the 11th century among the Sanhaja Berbers of the western Sahara.
Within the next weeks, it has a good chance to end the war in western Sahara and make progress toward a settlement in Cyprus.
The Tuareg people inhabit a large area, covering almost all the middle and western Sahara and the north-central Sahel.
Meteorologists forecast that the balloon would arrive over the western Sahara this morning.
A bloodless coup in Mauritania, in the western Sahara, has seen the president and prime minister detained by the military.
Also "Mad way south challenge over 2500 km in the western Sahara.
Plane used by the WHO team investigating the outbreak in Mali and western Sahara.
Other contingents were natives of Morocco, Algeria, and Tahiti (the Tahitians served with particular distinction in the western Sahara).
Specimens from northwestern Africa (Morocco, western Sahara) are almost entirely black.
But the town, called Taghaza, supplied salt to most caravan stops in the western Sahara.