Tuareg
(local/other name in Niger, Nigeria)

(most common name):
• Azawak (Niger, Nigeria)
• Zébu Azawack (Burkina Faso)
• Zébu Touareg (Mali)

The Tuareg is used mainly as a pack animal.

The name ‘Tuareg’ comes from the Tuareg people (also spelled Touareg), a large Berber ethnic confederation that lives primarily in a vast area in the Sahara that stretches from southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-20

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