Azawakh Idi! Idi! Idi!: April 2009

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

A Prayer For Tamoudit

An American Staffordshire Terrier was lost in Virginia 8 years ago and was just found 3,000 miles away, right here in Yuba County. Click here for the story.

Iferouâne

Iferouâne Idiiyat-es-Sahel is the birth name of my taidit. In Tamasheq it means wings.

She is named after Iferouâne, an oasis town in northern Niger, West Africa, about 1,000 km (620 miles) north of the Niger capital, Niamey. Just northwest of Arlit, capital of the Arlit Department in the Agadez Region, Iferouâne is located in the Ighazar Valley of the Sahelian belt, near the Tamgak Range. It is the gateway to the spectacular volcanic Aïr Massif mountains, which rises 2,000 meters from the desert floor.