The Toubou or Tubu (from Old Tebu, meaning "rock people") are an ethnic group native to the Tibesti Mountains that inhabit the central Sahara in northern...
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defend the rights and interests of the Toubou people in Libya. It is led by Issa Abdel Majid Mansur, a Libyan Toubou tribal leader, and has its headquarters...
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Caste systems in Africa (section Toubou people)
have been divinely sanctioned. The Mandara people also featured an endogamous slave strata. The Toubou people are an Islamic ethnic group inhabiting northern...
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belonging to the Tuareg, Kanem, and Daza, and allied with the Qadiwa and Toubou people. The Oualad Suleiman became one of the most powerful tribal groups in...
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earliest references to them in 8th-century texts are made jointly with the Toubou people of northern Chad and southern Libya, and scholars believe the two are...
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2008 Kufra conflict (category Toubou people)
was an armed conflict in the Kufra region of Libya, between the pro-Toubou Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya (TFSL) faction, and the Libyan Government...
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Tibesti, which means "place where the mountain people live", is the domain of the Toubou people. The Toubou live mainly along the wadis, on rare oases where...
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Demographics of Libya (redirect from Libya/People)
5% are Berbers. The remaining ethnic groups comprise of Tuaregs and Toubou people. The majority of the population of Libya is primarily Arab. Unofficial...
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Tebu languages (category Toubou people)
the two groups of Toubou people, the Daza and Teda. Tebu is predominantly spoken in Chad and in southern Libya by around 580,000 people. Daza and Teda have...
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Teda language (category Toubou people)
Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Teda, a northern subgroup of the Toubou people who inhabit southern Libya, northern Chad and eastern Niger. A small...
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