In this harsh, sun-soaked, sand-moving country lives a people called the Saharawi. Of semi nomadic decent they are a Berber/Arab mix. Their Arabic inheritance can be traced back to the 15th Century when tribes migrated from Yemen across North Africa and settled in Western Sahara.

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Most of the 30,000 Teda people live in the remote and isolated area of the Tibesti mountains, located in north-western Chad, north-eastern Niger and southern Libya. This area is surrounded by miles of the arid Saharan Sea of sand dunes and rocks.

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The Fulani are the largest migratory group of people in the world, consisting of between 16 to 25 million people (estimates vary widely) spread across sub-Saharan Africa from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan.

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The Gorane peoples (also called “Tubu” or Daza”) live in an area of about 1.3 million sq km of desert and savannah in four African countries (Niger, Chad, Libya and Sudan). Most of the approximately 500,000 Gorane live in Chad.

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The Tuareg are often regarded as a mysterious people, and regularly misunderstood by others. Once known as “The Lords of The Sahara”, they are still considered fierce and unapproachable by many other tribes.

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In Morocco one finds many disabled people yet their condition is not only due to disease. There are also accidents. Many accident victims do not have access to a hospital and therefore they suffer much more significant consequences to their accident than would be normal.

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Located on a semi-arid plain near the foot of the towering snow-capped High Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh today is a rapidly growing city of almost one million people that has become Morocco’s prime tourist destination and an economic centre second only to Casablanca.

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Established in the eighth century as its first Islamic town, Fes is known as the religious and Islamic cultural centre of Morocco. Blanketing several steep hillsides, it is one of the largest and most interesting living medieval cities in the world.

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All of Casablanca’s youth are seeking to reconcile their Islamic Arab/Berber origins with the emerging global youth culture. It is not uncommon for young Moroccans in Casablanca to watch MTV and try to copy Western fashions.

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About 96% of the Libyan population is Muslim and 3% Christian. The majority of Christians in Libya are nominal Egyptian Copts. There are only a handful of Libyan Christians. Sunni Islam is the state religion; Christian witness to Libyans is strictly prohibited.

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