Social Factors

Development programs from the 1940s through the 1970s failed to help the Tuareg because the programs worked against their traditional herding patterns. Between 1991 and 1995, the Tuareg who had received military training and arms in Libya, carried out a separatist rebellion. Demanding the right to rule their own region they have had continued off-and-on fighting in some regions of Mali and Niger. Some of the Tuareg have been forced into refugee camps.