In late 2011, thousands of Tuareg workers and fighters, many of them mercenaries for slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, return to their Saharan homeland in Niger and Mali.<br /><br />Having lost access to the country that was their only source of livelihood, they find little more than crushing poverty, hunger and drought back home.<br /><br />Barely able to feed their children amidst total state neglect, the men launch a rebellion to found their own country.
