Sahara salt diggers struggle to maintain centuries-old trade
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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.