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...rock art remains undiscovered. "We know where the major art-rich sites are," says Coulson, "but we're always finding new ones." He estimates that even in the Sahara, where numerous sites are well documented, archaeologists are aware of only 10% of the existing art. Exploring Chad's Tibesti Mountains last year, for example, he and Campbell discovered valleys abounding in ancient engravings, most of them unknown to experts...
Deep Forest was conceived by Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet, two French musicians who blended New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from Zaire, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti and the Sahel...
Chad's 20-year civil war took a startling, bloody turn last week as some 2,000 rebels battled three Libyan columns in Chad's Tibesti mountain region. The guerrillas, who earlier helped Libya gain a foothold in northern Chad, broke with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi after his troops shot and wounded Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei last October...
...weeks under the threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
Magic Amulets. Many of the rebels are hawk-nosed Toubou bandits from the mountains of Tibesti, where, legend has it, the wind is born. Others are wild-haired southern and eastern Islamic warriors bent on holy war, who carry amulets to ward off bullets. Though some of them wear only loincloths, there are usually a few in each band who wear immaculate white robes and ride Arab stallions. One man in ten has a gun; the rest fight with spears or bows and arrows -for which Garros has considerable respect. "They killed a lion the other day with a poisoned...