Azaouagh

The Azawagh is a broad, dry basin west of the Aïr Mountains, extending across the flatlands between the Sahara and the Sahel. Its valley once carried a tributary of the Niger, remembered farther south as the Dallol Bosso, but the ancient river dried up long ago. Tuareg pastoral communities have made their home in the basin, including the Iwellemeden Kel Denneg, whose country reaches toward Adar to the south.