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
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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.
Local sources are reporting the deaths of two young Tuareg men in an operation attributed to the Malian army and members of Africa Corps in Timbuktu, Mali.
New accusations of serious human rights violations are shaking northern Mali. According to several local sources contacted in the Timbuktu region, two young Tuareg men from the Kel Ouli community and a young Songhai man named Abdoul Magid were allegedly executed during a military operation carried out, according to these accounts, by a patrol including members of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) and members of Africa Corps, a Russian organization present in Mali.
By Mohamed AG Ahmedou
The events reportedly took place on Tuesday, June 23, in a village on the banks of the Niger River, a few kilometers east of Zarho, an area within the Ber and Bourem districts. According to accounts gathered from residents and relatives of the victims, the three men were intercepted near the Tuareg village of Ikorchatene, east of Zarho. The victims are believed to be from Karkadiane, a locality known for its pastoral and agricultural activities.
Testimonies describe scenes of extreme violence. Residents claim that the two young men were publicly executed and that one of them suffered post-mortem mutilation in the form of Hitler’s Nazi symbol on his limbs and head.
A region under tension:
The Zarho area is primarily populated by Tuareg communities who live from livestock farming and agriculture. The local population has historically maintained interdependent relationships with the Songhai communities and other groups present in this part of the Timbuktu region.
For several years, this area has been at the heart of tensions between government forces, the Russian Afrika Korps and Wagner Groups, Turkish drones, and jihadist organizations. Civilians regularly find themselves caught between several armed actors whose security and military strategies have profoundly disrupted the local balance.
According to community sources, the incident near Zarho occurred in an already tense atmosphere. Several residents mentioned other recent operations that resulted in civilian casualties in the Goundam region, specifically in Échal Horo on June 11. Here again, the exact figures and circumstances remain difficult to ascertain due to access constraints.
The strategy of terror in question:
Testimonies gathered from residents raise a recurring question in conflict zones: what is the objective when particularly spectacular violence is perpetrated against civilian populations?
Researchers specializing in armed conflict point out that public executions, when confirmed, can serve several purposes: intimidating local populations, discouraging support for opposing groups, imposing psychological control over a territory, or sending a political message to communities considered hostile.
In the case of northern Mali, several human rights organizations have already warned of the risks of radicalization that can result from abuses committed against civilian populations. The violence attributed to the various actors in the conflict often fuels cycles of revenge, armed recruitment, and distrust of the authorities.
An explosive situation for Mali’s stability:
For many observers, each new accusation of massacre or extrajudicial execution further undermines the country’s prospects for stabilization. While the transitional authorities claim to be continuing the restoration of national sovereignty, criticism is mounting regarding the human cost of certain military operations.
In the northern and central regions, the ongoing violence is fueling a sense of abandonment among some local populations. Community leaders fear that an increase in real or alleged abuses will further encourage recruitment by armed groups and further diminish the prospects for a lasting resolution to the crisis.
Calls for an independent investigation:
Given the seriousness of the accusations concerning the events in Zarho and Ikorchatene, several community leaders are calling for an independent investigation to establish the facts, identify potential culprits, and ensure that those responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law are held accountable.
While awaiting further information regarding the operations of this patrol, which, according to our sources, spent the day in the village of Zarho, information from this area is trickling in due to the temporary internet outage caused by the exodus of people with Starlink satellite Wi-Fi connections.
But one thing is already certain: fear continues to spread among the civilian populations of Azawad and northern Mali, the primary victims of a conflict now entering its second decade.
By Mohamed AG Ahmedou
24-06-26
Read more about this here in this article from yesterday – Young Tuareg beheaded – his arms and legs cut off and placed around the head in the sand in the shape of the Nazi symbol – By the Russian mercenaries in complicity with the Malian army.
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.
June 20, 2026 – A manifestation took place in Paris against the massacres in Mali (especially in the Azawad region in northern Mali) and in the central Sahel.
Here are three video reminders (two in the Tamasheq language and one in French) about the upcoming manifestation to denounce the massacres in Azawad and in the Sahel.
From 1960 in Kidal, right after French colonial rule ended, Malian gendarmes began with systematic humiliation. They tore off the turbans of Tuareg men in their camps and forced them to stare at the sun in front of their families.
Pictures on the social media right now shows brutally massacred victims in the village of Echal Horo, Timbuktu, where they massacred many people including children.
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
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