WE ARE HERE TO TELL THE WORLD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AZAWAD
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
“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.
By AG AHMEDOU MOHAMED
LIBYA: THE STATELESSNESS OF THE TUAREGS, A POLICY OF DELAY.
In southern Libya, thousands of Tuareg families have lived without statehood for decades. Research by political scientist Souad Akhaty Alamin, published in the Egyptian scientific journal “Eurasian,” demonstrates that this situation is not an administrative dysfunction, but the product of a governance strategy.
A people rendered invisible by the administration:
In the vast Fezzan region of southern Libya, comprised of four major provinces—Sebha, Ubari, Ghat, and Ghadames—entire generations live in a state of suspended existence. Neither fully recognized nor completely excluded, thousands of Tuareg families are kept in an administrative gray area where legal identity becomes an endless negotiation.
They have been there since the 1950s, long before Libyan independence in 1951, and long before the effective extension of Tripoli’s authority into the Sahara. Yet, despite decades of continuous presence, many of their citizenship applications, submitted as early as the 1970s, remain unanswered.
In a dense and rigorous scholarly article, researcher Souad Akhaty Alamin deconstructs a widely held belief: that of mere bureaucratic backlog. Her thesis is more radical and more unsettling. Administrative delays, she writes, are in fact a deliberate policy.
Statelessness as a State Strategy:
This study is based on several years of fieldwork (2023-2026), nearly fifty interviews, and an in-depth analysis of Libyan nationality law. It highlights a coherent mechanism, repeated across regimes, from Muammar Gaddafi to post-2011 Libya. Three main dynamics structure this shadowy policy:
The reversal of the burden of proof:
In a state governed by the rule of law, it is up to the administration to prove that an individual does not meet the conditions for nationality. In Libya, this logic is reversed. Tuareg families must prove, generation after generation, that they have the right to exist legally. Residency, civil status documents, tribal testimonies: everything is provided. Yet, the files remain stalled. Worse still, applicants are often administratively reclassified as “Malian” or “Nigerian,” without these states recognizing them.
The result is “manufactured statelessness.”
The second paradox is the post-2011 constitutional situation:
Since the fall of Gaddafi, an absurd institutional situation has taken hold. The authorities claim they do not have the power to grant citizenship. But they retain the power to suspend applications, overturn previous decisions, and open investigations into civil status.
In other words, the state cannot include, but it can exclude.
This paradox creates an administrative machine where no resolution is possible, yet control remains absolute.
The third point is the automation of exclusion with the National Identification Number (NIN):
The introduction of the National Identification Number (NIN) in 2013 marked a decisive turning point. Before this reform, Tuaregs registered in “temporary” registers had partial recognition, meaning access to school, sometimes local employment, and a minimal administrative existence. The NIN abruptly closed this door.
Without this number, there is no registration with the civil registry.
No access to banking services.
No formal economic integration.
Exclusion becomes systemic, automated, and irreversible.
A revealing double standard:
One of the most striking contributions of the study concerns what Souad Akhaty Alamin calls a “structural double standard.”
In civilian life, administrative requirements are rigid:
It is impossible to open a bank account.
Unable to obtain formal employment.
Unable to regularize one’s status.
But when it comes to military recruitment, these requirements suddenly become flexible. Individuals considered administratively “non-existent” can be mobilized as soldiers.
Excluded as citizens, mobilized as resources.
A cascading exclusion:
The consequences of this administrative statelessness are profound and intergenerational:
Children not registered at birth.
Limited access to higher education.
Impossibility of legal property ownership.
Economic marginalization and increased vulnerability to informal networks. This phenomenon produces what the literature calls structural violence: domination without direct violence, but with lasting and systemic effects.
A national security issue ignored.
Contrary to popular belief, this marginalization does not stabilize the Libyan state. It weakens it. The study shows that former public officials excluded after the NIN reform have joined informal economies; some have turned to smuggling or migration networks. By keeping an entire population outside the social contract, the state itself creates the conditions for chronic instability.
A Political Reading of Citizenship:
Beyond the Tuareg case, this article contributes to a broader reflection on citizenship in Africa. As legal scholar Bronwen Manby points out, nationality law is often used as an instrument of political power.
In Libya, the “Tuareg issue” becomes a tool for demographic control, a political lever, a means of avoiding sensitive decisions.
Breaking the Impasse: A Rights-Based Solution:
Faced with this situation, Souad Akhaty Alamin proposes a human rights-based approach. She calls for recognizing long-term residency as the primary criterion, valuing the civic contribution of populations, ending the logic of perpetual suspicion, and administratively reintegrating excluded populations.
Rehabilitating Existence:
The major contribution of this research is to shift the perspective. The Tuareg of Fezzan are not stateless by accident. They are in this state because a system keeps them there.
What this investigation reveals is less an administrative failure than a political rationale for this delay.
And an underlying question:
How long can a state keep a portion of its population in a state of non-existence without paying the price?
Biography:
Souad Akhaty Alamin is an independent researcher and community activist based in the Fezzan region of Libya. She is a member of the Tuareg community. With over ten years of professional experience in protection, civil registration, field research, monitoring, and evaluation across Libya, she has collaborated with international humanitarian and migration organizations such as UNHCR, IOM, WFP, and EU-funded programs. Her research focuses on administrative exclusion, statelessness, the rights of indigenous peoples, and governance in southern Libya.
In southern Libya, thousands of Tuareg families have lived without statehood for decades. Research by political scientist Souad Akhaty Alamin, published in the Egyptian scientific journal “Eurasian,” demonstrates that this situation is not an administrative dysfunction, but the product of a governance strategy.
From Mecca to Medina, from the Mandinka kingdoms to European capitals, exile runs through history as a formative ordeal. Far from being a weakness, it often constitutes a political resource, a space of freedom, and a lever of resistance against authoritarian regimes.
Genocide Record under Assimi Goita (2021 – 2025). The numbers do not lie. The regime’s alleged control is being paid for with the blood of innocent civilians. The Civilian Tragedy: More than 1,500 civilians have been killed in cold blood… Read more: NUMBERS DO NOT LIE
This is much more than a simple commemoration of independence. For the people of Azawad in particular, but also for all their friends, activists and supporters around the world, this day is a cornerstone of the struggle, a day of… Read more: IN REMEMBERANCE OF AZAWAD INDEPENDENCE
In the west and north of the Timbuktu region, a new series of attacks targeting nomadic civilian populations is causing serious concern among residents and local observers. These operations continued in the following days, with a significant escalation of violence.
This 02/04/2026 the Russian mercenaries of the Africa Corps (ex Wagner) and their extras of the Malian army looted and set fire on the market in Razelma in the Tinbuktu area in Azawad (northern Mali) and arrested many civilian residents.
The book “Man of the Sahara” written by well known activist Akli Sh`kka in 2020 was published in english. It has now been translated to french and we thank Akli for for his gracious permission to let the french PDF version be shared for free here, ready to read and download:
Bodies of civilians, or maybe we should say skeletons, continue to be discovered in the places where the famous Mali terrorists and their Russian allies have been. For them, anyone with a light complexion wearing a boubou and a turban is a “terrorist”. Based on a purely racist logic.
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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