While Libyan forces have some presence in the country's main population centers, large desert areas are controlled by a patchwork of tribes.
The BBC's Mark Doyle, in Bandiagara, some 320km (200 miles) south of Timbuktu, says there is still great fear among the people outside of the main population centres.
Tessalit is about 200km (125 miles) north of Kidal and is a gateway to the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains, where rebels are believed to have sought refuge after being forced from the main population centres in the north and east of the country.
The other main Roma population is made up of recent immigrants, mainly from Romania and Bulgaria.
Still, Morris got up Wednesday morning and opened her salon Sandy's On Main in Samson, population 2, 000, at the usual time.
This, indeed, is the main reason Europe's population has not yet started declining.
Several decades ago, many people considered rising population to be the main challenge facing humanity.
Later that evening, using secret cameras, we were outside a bar off the main square in a town with a population of 8000 Turks.
Their main demand: representation equal to their population and federal redistricting that maintains Madhesh and Tharu provinces -- which would guarantee the groups a bigger representation in parliament.
It appears many are moving into the Chao Phraya river basin north of Bangkok, the country's main farming region and its chief centre of population.
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The total resident population is 14, 957 with main activities being forestry and small scale farming, traditional bee keeping and, increasingly, tourism (180, 000 visitors from May to September).
Four percent of the Haitian population lives in the biosphere reserve and the main economic activities are agroforestry, fishery, tourism, and handicraft industry.
The direction of prices is important because rice is the main staple of more than half the world's population, making its price a focus of attention for world economists.
The report contends that the main cause of the damage is the growth in the human population and associated economic activities.
Its main argument is that, as a share of the voting population, the required number of signatures has dropped from 10% back in 1848 to 2.2% today, thanks to the enfranchisement of women at federal level, which took place only in 1971, and a swelling population.
The Copts, Egypt's main Christian minority, comprising about a tenth of the 85m-odd population, particularly fear the Salafists.
The first new brigade wouldn't fully arrive until February, but as the bombings increased in January, the 1st Cavalry Division, which already was in the country, escalated its efforts to protect the population, seeking new ways to protect markets, neighborhoods, main roads, and bridges, said Col.
Its main hope for growth is health care, thanks in part to its large population of retired people.
This was the first census to ask how well the population could speak English when it was not a person's main language.
The DMK is the main opposition party in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which has a large population of Tamils.
Guerrillas' main weapons are agility, surprise, the support of at least some sections of the population and, above all, time.
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The National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01, commissioned by the Jewish Federations of North America, the main umbrella organisation for the community, found that 43% of Jews who had no Jewish education intermarried.
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