AZAWAD SUPPORT GROUP – FREEDOM FIGHTERS, FREEDOM WRITERS!

Azawad is not just a region, it is a symbol of struggle, resistance and dignity for a people seeking recognition and self-determination.

The Malian authorities has since the 60s been implementing an ethnic cleansing replacement policy aimed to erase the Tuaregs, Arabs (moors) Peuhls and some others from Azawad. The so called “rebellions” are neither rebellions nor terrorism, they are the resistance of a people forced to fight an existenstial war.

Do they not have the right to live on their ancestral land like any other people?

Rather, they defend their land and people against an occupying army that has committed documented massacres, and against hired foreign militias that practice genocide and displacement under official cover.

The Touaregs wherever they are must know that AES is an alliance designed to exterminate them.

Azawad is at war, not out of a desire for conflict, but out of a refusal to disappear. Every bullet fired is a response to years of oppression. Our revolution is not a cry for vengeance; it is a call for dignity. We do not seek domination, only justice. The forgotten voice of Azawad needs to be heard. People of Azawad deserve justice and dignity.

They fight neither for money nor for glory, they fight for the right to exist on the land where they and their generations before them since millennia were born, and left the tifinagh on the rocks as proof of their existence.

The solution to all the problems is simple… independence of Azawad. it`s long due. People come and go…but the Azawad cause stays. The fight for freedom continues until Azawad is free.

“The Tuareg people have long been marginalized, isolated, crushed, trampled and one day they said enough is enough. They rebelled to say that they exist and that they must have the same rights as other peoples”
Mano Dayak, Interview, 1994

A question that keeps haunting me…
Is revolution like certain trees whose branches will only grow if they are watered?”

BY AZAWAD SUPPORT GROUP, AZAWAD FREEDOM VOICE, TOUMAST INFO & OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

However, it must be remembered that this struggle for freedom has been going on since the 1960s! The people of Azawad have suffered a lot!

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Par Mohamed AG AHMEDOU

From rural areas of Timbuktu to Kidal, and throughout central and southern Mali, airstrikes, alleged executions, and bombings targeting civilian populations are on the rise.

Behind the official rhetoric of territorial reconquest by General Assimi Goïta’s regime, the reality on the ground reveals a weakened state, incapable of stabilizing the North and protecting its people, while the Russian partners of the Afrika Korps themselves seem to acknowledge the military failure in Azawad.

Accounts emerging from rural areas of the North paint a picture of a territory gripped by fear, where Tuareg and Arab civilians say they live in constant anguish over airstrikes, arbitrary arrests, and collective reprisals.

A series of deadly incidents in the North:

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in the village of Intefouk, near Aguelhok in the Kidal region, Ahmed Ag Alhousseini, nicknamed “Intaka,” was reportedly killed during an operation conducted jointly by the Malian army and Russian elements of the Afrika Korps. According to several local accounts, he was shot at point-blank range while in a pastoral area.

This incident deeply shocked the nomadic communities of northern Mali, where the case quickly became a symbol of violence perceived as indiscriminate against Tuareg civilians.

Barely twenty-four hours later, another tragedy was reported in the Timbuktu region. On Thursday, May 14, a military mission leaving the town of Léré for rural areas reportedly executed two Tuareg men near the village of Sonima, in the commune of Aljounoub, in the Gargando department.

The victims were identified as Irou Ag Hamma Ag Zaybane and Houti Ag Baynana, both from the Tuareg community of Kel Aghazaf in the Timbuktu region.

For many residents of the area, these deaths are not isolated incidents but rather part of a security strategy that has spiraled out of control. In several rural localities in the north, residents now say they are avoiding roads, abandoning their camps, and taking refuge in desert areas far from towns.

Bombings and a climate of terror:

In addition to these alleged executions, bombings have been reported in several sectors of northern Mali, known as Azawad.

According to local sources, airstrikes using microbombs targeted rural areas such as Tintamaghayene, in western Gargando, as well as logistics trucks located north of Bourem.

These vehicles reportedly belong to an associate of the president of the Taoudenit regional council, who is considered supportive of the Malian military transitional government of Assimi Goïta.

Other strikes were also reported in the Kidal region, where civilians say they live in constant fear of military aircraft.

On Saturday, May 17, 2026, a new incident reignited tensions. According to several accounts gathered in the Kidal region, a Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet used by the Malian army and elements of the Afrika Korps targeted civilian camps located in Talabit and Tadjmart, about 80 kilometers north of the city of Kidal.

The provisional toll reports four wounded, including two women, and the death of a seven-year-old child. The strikes also reportedly caused significant material damage to homes and nomadic camps.

In these desert regions where medical facilities are scarce, the wounded often have to be evacuated hundreds of kilometers in extremely difficult conditions.

The paradox of the official narrative:

This violence comes just days after a public statement by the governor of Timbuktu, Bakoun Konaté, who called for calm and encouraged the return of Tuareg and Arab civilians who had fled the violence perpetrated by Russian mercenaries from Afrika Korps and the Malian Armed Forces (FAMAS) in several areas of northern Mali.

But on the ground, many residents denounce a growing gap between official pronouncements and the security reality experienced daily by local populations.

In several districts of Timbuktu and Kidal, entire families continue to flee their camps for fear of airstrikes or military operations. Some community leaders are now speaking of a “silent exodus” and even of ethnic cleansing of nomadic populations.

This contradiction further undermines the credibility of the Malian transitional authorities, who are accused by their critics of using security concerns to consolidate their political power while the security situation continues to deteriorate.

A war that is now spreading to southern Mali:

Concern is growing, especially as the violence is no longer confined to the north.

On Sunday, May 17, the village of Tené, in the San region of southern Mali, was reportedly targeted by drone strikes that hit a gathering organized for a wedding.

According to several local sources contacted by Méhari Post, at least eight people were killed, including local dignitaries and elected officials. Numerous wounded were reportedly evacuated to the San referral health center.

While the exact circumstances of this strike are still being established, this event is fueling growing concern that the military methods used in the north are gradually spreading to other regions of the country.

For several months, Malian authorities have presented armed drones and Russian military support as essential tools in the fight against jihadist groups. But a growing number of voices are denouncing operations conducted without transparency, without independent investigations, and with dramatic consequences for civilian populations.

The quagmire of a military regime under strain:

Nearly six years after the first military coup in 2020, Mali seems to be sinking deeper into a multidimensional crisis where the militarization of power is failing to restore lasting security or rebuild national trust.

On the contrary, in many regions, accusations of abuses, intercommunal tensions, and population displacements are fueling deep resentment against the transitional authorities and their Russian partners.

Beyond the human tragedy, these repeated military operations against civilians in the Azawad regions primarily reflect a strategic reality that is becoming increasingly difficult for Bamako to conceal.

Despite months of official propaganda surrounding the “reconquest” of the North, the security situation demonstrates that the Malian state is still struggling to maintain lasting control over the vast northern territories.

Even more revealing, several communication channels close to the Russian elements of the Afrika Korps have recently suggested that the objective of fully recapturing Kidal is no longer a priority, or has even become unrealistic under the current circumstances. For many Sahelian observers, this development constitutes an implicit admission of military failure.

Unable to impose political and security stability in the North, General Assimi Goïta’s government now seems to favor a strategy of demonstrating air power, the primary victims of which remain the civilian population.

For many Sahelian observers, the risk now lies in an even deeper rift between the central government and certain peripheral populations, particularly Tuareg, Arab, and Fulani, who feel they are paying the price for a war waged without a clear distinction between civilians and combatants.

In this volatile context, the lack of independent investigations into reported violence and the gradual stifling of the Malian media landscape are contributing to increased tensions and mistrust.

While the authorities in Bamako claim to be fighting for national sovereignty and the stability of the country, many Malians are now wondering: how far can this logic of war lead Mali before the country falls into even deeper fragmentation?

25-05-26

H O M E

EVERYTHING IS TARGETED IN AZAWAD, CIVILIANS, ANIMALS, EVEN NATURE, THE SITUATION IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.

France is responsable for the Azawad situation. They should never have colonized and then attached Azawad to Mali. Two different countries. In conflict since then, especially due to the neglect and oppression by Mali.

The Azawadians did never agree to be attached to Mali, a country they had nothing in common with, and Mali did from the very beginning neglect and oppress Azawad – followed by the start of a genocide, but since they were never able to kill off the Azawadian people they called for help from external forces. Like Wagner, now Africa Corps and who, like the authorities of Mali, admittedly have no interest in human rights. And they use Turkish drones killing entire families. Only a fraction of all the suffering is brought to the attention of the media.

The people of Azawad have been forced to fight for decades, not by choice, but by necessity – to defend their land and identity, to defend their dignity. To survive – it`s an existential struggle, not just with weapons, but also culturally, and there is a cultural and mental and environmental genocide going on as well as an ethnic genocide.

The Azawadians did never ask for or agree to be attached to Mali! but they were force-attached.

Since independence, there has been no peace because it was not one country, but two – with distinct identities, one oppressing the other. Recognize this and peace will follow. #Azawad

In #Azawad there are no basic necessities like running water, schools, hospitals or roads due to state neglect. And when people ask for their rights they are labeled as terrorists by the junta and their supporters.. That is a common tactic by oppressive regimes and has also happened in other parts of the world when people are fighting for freedom against oppression, they label them terrorists.

Can you, members of the international community, imagine what it must be like to live under these attacks and oppression from Fama and Africa Corps (ex Wagner)? For example, living in the desert, where you hear the noise from far away in the silence, and suddenly… you hear the noise of engines in the middle of the night? Someone is approaching and you know it is death.

We can always do something, if there´s a will, there´s a way like Bob Marley used to say. For example, the least we can do is react. We can stop being silent! we can at least try to let the world know what is happening in Azawad. Silence kills.

We can also help with donations when Azawad Solidarity and local organizations has campaigns. Any donations helps, no matter how small. They recently had a very successful campaign and they posted a lot of pictures and information on the social media as well as made a video of the deliverance of medecines to refugees in Tinzawatine, you can read about it here.

Fama and Africa Corps (ex Wagner), they come to a village… and then they leave that village with a scar that takes generations to heal. And justice is still absent, but silence is not!!

Sunset on October 7 from the strip separating Tinzawatine in Algeria and Azawad. Photo: Lahcen Ag Touhami.

Where are the human rights organizations regarding the suffering of the Azawadian people? Are you just decorations or are these people not human beings to you? #A-Voice-in-Azawad …

The daily life of the people of Azawad has become a nightmare, marked by violence and terror. The repeated incursions of the Africa Corps (ex Wagner) forces and the FAMA have plunged entire communities into indescribable suffering.

Entire villages are reduced to ashes, their homes burned, their property plundered without mercy. The meager pastures, source of life for the herders, are also ravaged by the flames, destroying all hope of subsistence.

Forced into exile, men, women and children find themselves surviving under modest sunshades, without shelter or resources, exposed to extreme precariousness. This blind violence destroys not only lives, but also entire generations, threatening the future of Azawad and the dignity of its inhabitants.

Please, if you are willing and able, support the suffering people and the fight for a free Azawad. The blood of the Azawadians is wasted while their just cause remain forgotten! What a shame! A sad reality! Their lives are worth as much as those of others, but they are considered useless in the eyes of the exploiters! Who can do anything about this situation?

AZAWAD IS BLEEDING…. THEY NEED OUR HELP AND SUPPORT!

You don’t compare the one who fights for money to the one who fights for his dignity. One sells his soul, the other defends his freedom.

IT IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR THE AFRICA CORPS (ex WAGNER) TO HELP THE ILLEGAL PUTSCHISTS CARRY OUT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE SAHEL REGION IN DISREGARD OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.