PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENNAN LINSLEY/AP
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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
THE DESERT LIFE:
Hama Ould Ali and his wife Fatima drink traditional strong black tea and share a laugh inside their family's shelter in a tiny settlement in the Sahara, about 30 miles outside of Timbuktu. "We are tired of the nomad life,'' said Hama Ould Ali, who was once a desert nomad and now makes charcoal to support his family. He's found a new dream, though, in a classroom east of Timbuktu, where his children learn basic reading and math in a mixture of Arabic and French. "I want their lives to be different," he said. 
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