Fighting under the banner of the Movement ... they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg," he said, repeating a favorite local aph­orism. "We know how to fight ...

The spokesman for the Tuareg rebels from the Alliance ... The Tuaregs have been fighting for over a decade for autonomy over the desert areas in northern Mali. The region, which they call Azawad ...