Comments on: GADDAFI AND THE TOUAREG – Love, hate and petro-dollars http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/ In depth writing about global music, culture & West African affairs Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mourning Qaddafi; or, The Curse of the Marietou Palace | Bridges from Bamako http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-704 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:49:35 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-704 [...] of how geopolitical events are often understood in localist terms, many Malians believe that Qaddafi’s mother was a Tamasheq from the Malian town of Kidal. I have found no solid confirmation of this on the web, but I have [...]

]]> By: What Fallout for Mali, Niger, and Chad from Libya’s Civil War? | Sahel Blog http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-639 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:24:57 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-639 [...] two relatively recent pieces on the Tuareg, see here and here. Advertisement LD_AddCustomAttr("AdOpt", "0"); LD_AddCustomAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

]]> By: Faye http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-566 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:42:22 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-566 Thanks for such a a clear and informative article.

It helps to think a little deeper about the impact on the Tamashek people.

Sincerely, Faye

]]> By: Andy Morgan http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-559 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:14:08 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-559 Thanks Maggie.
What can we do? That’s a good question. Not much I feel, apart from caring for the victims of the conflict and trying our best to explain the subtleties of the Sahara to a media that likes to see black and white in everything. It’s interesting that you’re working in Darfur. Gaddaffi had plenty to do with training Janjaweed fighters in the 1980s. Another of his dark chapters.
All the best, Andy.

]]> By: Maggie Murphy http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-556 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:30:23 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-556 I had no idea you were so immersed in such important stuff Andy. This is a really well written and highly informative piece. Thanks so much for keeping me informed. You once tried to help me get Tinariwen for one of my benefit events for Darfur (I think it was Stand Up Charlottesville for Darfur II) I’ve since done one for a school construction project in south Sudan, called Hope for Ariang. I think we all need to be keeping our eyes on Africa and helping as best we can, where we can. It is painful to hear of the plight of the Touareg but I’m grateful someone is speaking on their behalf. What can the international community do?
Sincerely
Maggie Murphy

]]> By: Elisabeth Stoudmann http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-555 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:18:36 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-555 Interesting. I was wondering what was the touareg position with all this mess in Lybia. I don’t have an answer now because the situation is far too complex. But at least, I got a few inside perspectives from the touareg side. It’ss rare and precious. Thank you Andy!

]]> By: Richard Trillo http://www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-the-touareg-love-hate-and-petro-dollars/#comment-438 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:22:14 +0000 http://www.andymorganwrites.com/?p=682#comment-438 Excellent, revealing piece Andy – so much more enlightening than most of the commentary being banged out, thank you. You reveal Gaddafi as addicted to buying influence and patronage from every quarter, while apparently having no political agenda of any kind – sickening.

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