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The Salt of Life
Life is hard for the nomadic people of the Sahara Desert who live and work along the 450-mile salt road from Timbuktu


A DYING BREED:
Herdsman Sidi Mohammed Ould Al Hassan, who is part of a generation of nomads that is seeing many of its children look to sedentary town life, speaks about his life in the Sahara. "This is my life, it was my father's life. This is where I belong," Al Hassan said. His sons, though, want something different.

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