WE ARE HERE TO TELL THE WORLD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AZAWAD
AZAWAD …. Names are not just words… but history and identity and peoples.
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?
The Azawad Army does not wage expansionist wars or target innocents.
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.
THIS WEBPAGE IS A PEACEFUL SUPPORT TO THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE OF AZAWAD.
“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
When you realize the full scale of the oppression by Mali on Azawad. It`s like you almost have to sit down and take a deep breath… It`s like a full book of genocide tactics.
“My friends across Africa, I have a question,
A question that keeps haunting me… Is revolution like certain trees whose branches will only grow if they are watered?”
Tinariwen
AZAWAD PAGES:
AZAWAD NEWS
BY AZAWAD SUPPORT GROUP, AZAWAD FREEDOM VOICE, TOUMAST INFO & OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Here we share news about what is happening in Azawad, from 2022 and onwards.
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!
We display the headlines of eight news articles on this frontpage, but there is a lot more in the drop-down menus of “Previous posts” – where you can search for months or cathegories.
The dissemination of images attributed to fighters linked to the Russian security apparatus in Mali has sparked outrage among many observers. Among them, a photograph showing the mutilated body of a Tuareg man, arranged to resemble Hitler’s swastika, has caused particular shock. While the true intentions of those who created it remain to be definitively established, the symbolic significance of such a staged scene cannot be ignored.
By Mohamed AG Ahmedou, Editor-in-Chief of the Méhari Post.
The matter doesn’t end with this image. A few days later, references to the “Afrika Korps” appeared in online communication channels associated with the pro-Russian sphere. This name directly evokes the German expeditionary force deployed in North Africa during World War II under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the collective imagination, it remains inextricably linked to the military expansion of the Third Reich.
Taken individually, each of these elements could be considered a provocation or an ambiguous historical reference. But their accumulation raises a deeper question: why mobilize symbols in the Sahel today that refer to the political and military world of Nazi Germany?
The unease is all the greater given that the Wagner Group, for a long time the main instrument of the Russian military presence in Africa, bears the name of the composer Richard Wagner, a cultural figure admired by Adolf Hitler. While this reference alone is insufficient to establish an ideological link, it does contribute to fueling questions when associated with other, more explicit symbols.
For many historians and observers of Eastern Europe, these images resonate painfully with the memory of the Second World War. The Soviet Union paid the heaviest human price in the fight against Nazism. The Siege of Leningrad, which lasted nearly nine hundred days, remains one of the most tragic episodes of the conflict. Millions of Soviet citizens perished in the war that ultimately led to the defeat of Hitler’s Germany.
In this context, the use of symbols evoking Nazism appears as an insult to the memory of the peoples who fought fascism. It offends not only Russians, but also Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians, the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, and all the nations that suffered the violence of the Third Reich.
The issue is also political. For two decades, the Russian government has made the victory against Nazism one of the pillars of its national narrative. Moscow regularly invokes the legacy of the “Great Patriotic War” to legitimize its international actions. Therefore, how can this official memory be reconciled with the circulation of images or references that seem to draw on fascist ideology?
The Russian authorities are faced with a contradiction. If they intend to remain the heirs of those who defeated Hitler, they cannot remain silent in the face of symbols that recall the darkest hours of the 20th century. The stakes extend beyond Mali. It concerns the very meaning of the antifascism claimed by contemporary Russia.
Vladimir Putin, who was born in Leningrad and studied at Leningrad State University, and his ambassador to Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, Igor Anatolievich Gromyko, grandson of Andrei Gromyko, who served as the Soviet Union’s foreign minister for 25 years, are responsible, through their support for the armies of the Sahel and the Malian army via Wagner and Africa Corps, for the use of fascist militias and the resurgence of fascism in the Sahel, including the illegal and illegitimate regimes of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The United Nations, the European Union, the United States of America, and the African Union are called upon to address the actions of Africa Corps and Wagner in Mali, where they mutilate the bodies of Tuareg, Arab, and Fulani civilians by forming swastikas reminiscent of Hitler’s.
Beyond individual responsibilities, this affair underscores a fundamental truth: symbols are never neutral. In societies scarred by war and historical trauma, their use always carries a political message. And when these symbols evoke the world of fascism, their trivialization cannot be dismissed as a mere communication strategy.
This is why the images disseminated from Mali, especially the image of the swastika and the human form of a Tuareg east of Timbuktu on June 23, 2026, warrant thorough investigation and unequivocal condemnation, as their authenticity and intent have been confirmed. The history of the 20th century has shown where indifference can lead to the rehabilitation, even implicit, of fascist ideology.
The dissemination of images attributed to fighters linked to the Russian security apparatus in Mali has sparked outrage among many observers. Among them, a photograph showing the mutilated body of a Tuareg man, arranged to resemble Hitler’s swastika, has caused particular shock. While the true intentions of those who created it remain to be definitively established, the symbolic significance of such a staged scene cannot be ignored.
To those who choose silence today. History teaches us an implacable lesson: When we turn a blind eye to dehumanization, we often end up becoming its victims.
That man was an unarmed civilian, decapitated and dismembered by the Russian mercenaries in complicit with the Malian army Fama. One word is enough as caption for this picture – who is the terrorist??
While Niger has recently released several detained individuals and citizens, including Libyan citizens, following influential political, tribal, and social interventions—where financial resources, political influence, and the efforts of tribes and mediators played a decisive role in defending their sons and securing their release—the case of the Tuareg Inkinan Ag Attaher remains unresolved and without significant progress.
The Tuareg Diaspora organized manifestation against the massacres in Azawad and the Sahel reached the world despite being restricted in numbers and place, due to french regulations concerning manifestations near any embassy. Also, Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki, the well-known Japanese-French journalist and writer took part in the manifestation organized by the Tuareg diaspora in Europe near the Russian Embassy in Paris, France, on June 20, 2026.
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.
BREAK THE SILENCE ON AZAWAD
The Azawadians did never ask for or agree to be attached to Mali! but they were force-attached.
And THIS is the ROOT of the PROBLEM!
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.
When injustice is the law rebellion is a duty.
SELF-INTEREST IS THE ENEMY OF LIBERATION!
Betrayal is not only in actions, but in silence too!
IN AZAWAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET US NOT CLOSE OUR EYES LET US KNOW: THEY ARE MASSACRING THE INNOCENTS LET US REACT AGAINST THE BARBARIANS!
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.
So what can we do?
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.
A Z A W A D
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.
“BUT NOTHING AND NO ONE CAN DEFEAT THOSE WHO DEFEND A JUST CAUSE” Mano Dayak
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 unheard of atrocities against the civilians of Azawad continue in all their barbaric brutality by the Malian army and the terrorist Wagner militia, slaughtering Azawadian civilians in the name of fighting “terrorism” in their attempt to exterminate every living being in Azawad, using the burnt earth policy, and cheering themselves on in a barbaric act of genocide that continues while the world remains silent. it`s always the children who are the most vulnerable victims.
The nomadic population, forgotten by the world. It is confronted with the repression of terrorists on the one hand and regular and mercenary armies on the other, who do not differentiate between a terrorist and an innocent and targeting children is part of their agenda. In the picture is an injured child by the drone attack in Tinzawaten 2024 killing several children.
In the 70s, the Malian government took advantage of the drought to starve the inhabitants of Azawad, it is proven. Today, international humanitarian organizations were prohibited by the Malian authorities to help in the epidemic of malaria and dysentery and they are strongly suspected of adding chemicals in the drones causing an unknown disease as well as causing the animals to get deformed offspring. It is the same genocide that has been repeated since the 60s. Only the methods have become more sophisticated.
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.
History will witness your silence 🤐 !!!! @ToumastInfo
WORDS ABOUT THIS WEBPAGE
“You are like a bright lamp shining in the darkness”….
“We must break the silence about Azawad!”
“Excellent”
“A very good webpage about Azawad, speaking about this case contiually, like they’re living it everyday. Thank you.”
“We need hope… and this webpage brings hope! tell the world about Azawad. Let them know that we exist!”
“You can make our voices heard”
“Azawad is a just cause, thank you all for supporting it, writing about it, it`s a just fight for freedom.”
“Thank you for being there. Thank you for writing. Thank you for not staying silent like so many others.”
A fraternal space managed with wisdom and kindness. A support page for the defense of the history, culture, and rights of the people of Azawad. Inform…Share!
