Second Tuareg RebellionMali / Niger · 2007–2009“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”The peace of the nineties had been signed, celebrated, and shelved. A decade later the Tuareg of Mali and Niger counted the promised wells, clinics and army posts that had never come, and a new generation took back to the dunes to present the invoice.