Click here for links to Nigerien and Malian government websites and national/regional news agencies.

The Niger Movement for Justice website regularly posts information about the movement.

To find out more about Tuareg grievances, check out the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee, a network of 150 indigenous peoples' organisations.

And Temoust has lots of information about Tuareg culture and their political goals and collects related articles from agencies worldwide.

To find out which aid agencies work in Mali and Niger, click here. And to learn more about the challenges of living in northern Niger, read the Irish Red Cross website.