sentences:  Outside of that, the land is almost completely barren except for seasonal grasses.A Tuareg community, the small sedentary population is today made up of several hundred mostly Ikelan (or "Bouzou" in Hausa / "Bella" in Songhai), former slaves and captives of the Kel Owey Tuareg from Hausa and other southern peoples.These peoples were settled in Aouderas, as in other northern oases, to tend the date palm plantations fed by the oasis held by the noble clans.