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Oumar’s convoy evaded the military for four days and several hundred miles, but the checkpoint at Dao Timmi, situated at a gap between mountains in the Djado Plateau region, is unavoidable.
- ↑ African Studies Association (1992). The Arts of Africa: an annotated bibliography. African Studies Association. p. 52.
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