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AT the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a desert landscape punctured by holes.

The salt pans of Kalala in northeastern Nige were once an essential stop for traders. Today, this isolated desert region is plagued by armed gangs and smugglers.

At the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by the dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a desert landscape punctured by holes.

Today, in the isolated Sahara desert region plagued by armed gangs and smugglers, salt diggers struggle to survive.

At the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by the dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a desert landscape punctured by holes. The salt pans of Kalala, near Bilma in northeastern Niger, were once an essential stop for traders with their swaying lines of camels. Salt digging, carried on from generation to generation, was

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At the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by the dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a desert landscape punctured by holes.

At the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by the dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a desert landscape punctured by holes. The salt pans of Kalala, near Bilma in northeastern Niger, were once an essential stop for traders with their swaying lines of camels. Salt digging, carried on from ge ..

The salt pans of Kalalam north-eastern Niger were once an essential stage of the caravan routes. Now the once flourishing trade seeks to survive in a troubled regional economy

Over centuries, hundreds of pits have been dug by hand and then filled with water to leach salt from the local rock.