Crowd of kids who followed us in Ouagla

Ghardaia to Ouargla to Tourgourt

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November 16th 1983
This morning we went to the market place as Habib wanted to show it to me. It was a colourful place selling everything from piles of spices to carpets and goats. Then we caught the bus to Ouagla, which was a two hour trip. I slept most of the way, but just as we were entering Ouagla, Habib gave me a nudge and told me to look out. There I saw clean yellow sand dunes of the Sahara interspersed w ... read more

Africa » Algeria

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After more than a century of rule by France, Algerians fought through much of the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has dominated politics ever since. Many Algerians in the ... ... read more