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Mawli Dayak, together with an entourage including Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez and a Niger army unit acting as a security unit in conversation with soldiers, some of whom took part in the Tuareg rebellion together with Mano Dayak (father of Mawli), the legendary Tuareg leader, freedom fighter and negotiator of the first rebellion, 1992 -'95. Mano Dayak suffered a fatal plane crash in the Bagzan region of the Aïr mountains in 1995 under suspicious circumstances, but absolute causes of the accident were never conclusively proved. Ténéré region of northern Niger. (Photo by Christopher Pillitz/Getty Images)