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
A revolution is not fought with weapons alone… there are fighters of diplomacy, the media, musical, authors, poets of resistance, teachers, all activists, because the fronts have become diverse.
Imouhagh International for Justice and Transparency is a human rights organization that has been documenting the situation of Tuareg communities in Sahel countries, particularly in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, for several years.
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 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has broken its silence to address the situation in northern Mali (Azawad). It is calling for clarification following the Malian military’s announcement of approximately 30 soldiers killed and 60 wounded during fighting around Anéfif in early July. The fighting pitted the Malian army and Russian paramilitaries of the Afrika Korps against a coalition of the Azawad Liberation Front (ALF) and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). In its statement, the UN mentions Malian soldiers who reportedly surrendered before being tortured and executed, and calls for an independent investigation to establish the facts, particularly those shown in videos circulating on social media.
The summary execution of captured soldiers constitutes, if proven, a war crime, regardless of the perpetrator or which side they are on. On this specific point, the UN is right to want to investigate, and the perpetrators will have to answer for their actions if the facts are confirmed. But it is precisely the speed and clarity of this reaction that raise questions, when compared to the prolonged silence, even obstruction, that long surrounded far more massive violations committed against civilian populations in northern and central Mali.
A CONTRAST THAT RAISES QUESTIONS
The most emblematic case remains the Moura massacre. Between March 27 and 31, 2022, the Malian army and “foreign” fighters, whom the UN report itself associates with the Wagner Group, detained, sorted, and then summarily executed more than 500 people in the space of five days in this village in central Mali, with indications of crimes against humanity. It took more than a year for this report to be published, as Russia had in the meantime blocked any request for an independent investigation into these events at the Security Council. Since then, impunity remains total: no Malian official has been brought to justice.
This pattern is not isolated. In Tinzawaten, in August 2024, a drone strike by the Malian army killed seven civilians, including five children. A father described his son, wounded in the head, dying en route to the hospital for lack of medical assistance. Human Rights Watch documented that between May and December 2024, the Malian armed forces and the Wagner Group deliberately killed at least 32 civilians, made four others disappear, and burned at least 100 houses during operations in the center and north of the country. These violations primarily target Tuareg and Arab communities in the north, and Fulani communities in the center—three communities that government forces too often collectively equate with armed group fighters.
There is also Enaderfé Ag Mohamed Elmoctar, coordinator of a humanitarian NGO based in the Central African Republic, who had come to spend his holidays in his native country. In January 2025, while traveling by car to the M’Bera refugee camp in Mauritania with his family, he was killed along with his pregnant wife, their three-year-old son, and several relatives in executions attributed by numerous witnesses to the Malian army and the Wagner Group. A humanitarian worker, his wife, and their young child: no UN statement naming anyone responsible followed.
More recently, at the end of June 2026, four young herders—two Tuareg and two Songhai—with no connection to any armed group, were killed near Zarho and Abakoïra, between Timbuktu and Gao, by a patrol of the Malian army and the Russian Africa Corps, which had replaced Wagner.
One of the bodies was found decapitated and dismembered, its arms and legs arranged in a swastika around its head—a macabre display intended, according to local human rights organizations, to terrorize the population. Again, there was no emergency statement, no name put forward by the United Nations, and no call for an independent investigation.
Faced with this accumulation of documented facts, documented by organizations as established as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN Human Rights Office itself, appeals to the international community long went unanswered: no binding resolution, no monitoring mechanism, and a UN mission (MINUSMA) that ultimately left the country without those responsible for the worst atrocities being held accountable.
THE SAME DEMAND FOR EVERYONE:
No one is asking the UN to turn a blind eye to Malian soldiers executed after surrendering, if that is indeed what happened. The question is one of consistency. If this renewed interest in human rights in the Sahel now extends, with the same rigor and speed, to all violations, whether committed by armed groups, the Malian army, or its Russian backers, then this is to be welcomed, and the UN should demonstrate this by applying the same pressure to the ongoing investigations into Moura and the dozens of other documented atrocities against unarmed civilians.
But if this mobilization were to remain selective, swift when state soldiers are targeted, hesitant or stalled when Tuareg, Arab, or Fulani civilians are massacred, then it would constitute yet another injustice and demonstrate that double standards, rather than the protection of populations, continue to guide the United Nations’ actions in the Sahel.
No one is asking the UN to turn a blind eye to Malian soldiers executed after surrendering, if that is indeed what happened. The question is one of consistency. If this renewed interest in human rights in the Sahel now extends, with the same rigor and speed, to all violations, whether committed by armed groups, the Malian army, or its Russian backers, then this is to be welcomed, and the UN should demonstrate this by applying the same pressure to the ongoing investigations into Moura and the dozens of other documented atrocities against unarmed civilians.
For decades, Azawad and its inhabitants have faced all sorts of atrocities and bombings targeting innocent civilians: women, babies, children, the elderly, Fulani, Arabs (Maures), and Tuaregs. Despite all this, there has been no outrage or condemnation, not even once, from Malian civil society, religious scholars, politicians, or intellectuals, whether pro-junta or staunch opponents in exile.
A Message to Azawad Officials and Activists Defending the Azawad Cause: By: تيم تار ان مرهانين The disinformation campaigns have reached a point where silence is no longer an option. Therefore, the responsibility does not fall solely on political leaders,… Read more: A MESSAGE TO AZAWAD OFFICIALS AND ACTIVISTS DEFENDING THE AZAWAD CAUSE
An ambush on saturday morning, july 18, 2026 by the Azawad Liberation Front on vehicles with Malian Fama soldiers and Russian Afrika Korps mercenaries resulted in the destruction of several armored vehicles, and the killing and capture of dozens of Malian soldiers. This happened in the Tabrichat area.
On July 17, a suicide drone struck the village of Talhandak – a commercial complex near the Algerian border – before being shot down. There are reports of civilian casualties.
Imouhagh International is following with deep concern the serious human rights violations that have reportedly occurred in recent days in the Kidal region. According to information and testimonies gathered by the organization, the Malian Armed Forces and Russian mercenaries from Africa Corps have allegedly carried out drone attacks against civilian populations, using bombs containing highly toxic chemicals.
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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