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
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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.
Several human skeletons discovered in Amachach/Tessalit, Azawad: what we know.
Amachach/Tessalit (Azawad) – On May 2, 2026, the day after the withdrawal of the Afrika Korps (formerly Wagner Group) and the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), several human skeletons were discovered in Amachach, near Tessalit, a locality now under the control of the Azawad Liberation Forces (FLA).
According to initial accounts gathered by residents and shared on social media, the concealed bodies belong to Azawad civilians abducted several years earlier by Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries from Afrika Korps. Initial findings suggest these individuals were taken to this base before being executed. No combatants were among the victims, only nomadic civilians.
The information has been confirmed at this stage by the local human rights association KalAkal.
SYSTEMATIC VOLENCE DENOUNCED FOR DECADES
The kidnappings of Azawad civilians are not new. According to numerous local sources, they are part of a systematic practice implemented by the Malian regime since the 1960s. Extensive photographic and written evidence testifies to the brutality and state terrorism inflicted on the people of Azawad by successive Malian authorities.
For Azawad, this is a war of survival: either defense or extermination.
UNEVEN AND CRITICIZED MEDIA COVERAGE
This latest episode also reignites a recurring observation: the hypocrisy of the international media regarding the tactical, non-ideological alliance between JNIM and the FLA, born out of the need to combat the Afrika Korps. According to several local observers, the major international media outlets ignore or refuse to examine the nuances of this complex situation.
While the Malian state and the Afrika Korps continue to massacre Arab, Tuareg, and Fulani civilians, labeling them “terrorists,” the international press, as a whole, remains silent, these same sources denounce.
UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS
Where were the international media when infants were burned alive by Turkish-made drones? Where were they when entire families were decimated by Wagner, the Afrika Korps, or the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA)? Where were they when thousands of Azawad civilians were crammed into refugee camps? Where were they when Malian soldiers allegedly committed acts of cannibalism on their victims, acts filmed and widely circulated on social media? The evidence exists, Azawad activists claim. The media silence, however, is glaring.
WHY WE SAY “AZAWADIANS”
On this site, we deliberately and politically use the term “Azawadians” rather than “Malians.” Because the ancestral territory is called Azawad, a land that should never have been annexed to Mali. This postcolonial border, the result of an unresolved error of decolonization, has caused so much unspeakable suffering to thousands of innocent people.
May God help Azawad rid itself of its oppressors, murderers, racists, and cannibals!
MESSAGE TO AFRICAN AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
To African and International Organizations, The silence observed during the years of catastrophe suffered by our people was not neutral. It stemmed from a choice, a choice fraught with responsibility. While civilian populations in Azawad were being massacred, entire families decimated, and territories transformed into mass graves under the violence of the Malian coup regime and its mercenaries, no statement, no outrage, no stance commensurate with the scale of the crimes was expressed.
Today, some voices feel entitled to speak out, to judge, even to defame, following our response to the Malian positions. False narratives are being circulated, and those who refuse to disappear in silence are labeled “terrorists.” Such practices are an insult to the memory of the victims and the dignity of the survivors.
Let us be clear: any moral authority is disqualified when it has been built on silence in the face of horror. Those who have tolerated such acts cannot claim to guide the future, nor define the contours of justice. This international hypocrisy is firmly rejected, as is this double standard that ranks human lives according to unacceptable logic.
Furthermore, the alliances chosen based on geopolitical interests, including by actors historically perceived as close allies, constitute a profound moral breach whose consequences will remain etched in our memories.
It must be stated unequivocally: the struggle of the people of Azawad cannot be negotiated under duress, nor distorted by external rhetoric.
Those who have chosen silence in the past are urged, if not to act responsibly, to exercise restraint in the present. No external approval is now expected. No belated compassion will suffice.
The determination remains unwavering, and the march continues, despite the obstacles, and, if necessary, in opposition to those who perpetuate them.
On May 2, 2026, the day after the withdrawal of the Afrika Korps (formerly Wagner Group) and the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), several human skeletons were discovered in Amachach, near Tessalit.
The Azawad cause does not date back to yesterday, or to 2012: Here is a multi-page letter signed by more than 300 Azawad chiefs addressed to De Gaulle in 1958, two years before Mali’s independence, asking not to be annexed to it.
The attitude of the Tuareg revolutionaries of Azawad, whom the Malian coup plotters treat as “terrorists,” goes even beyond what is prescribed by international laws of war.
The FLA salutes the bravery of its fighters, the courage of the youth and the resilience of the women and people of Azawad. After Kidal, a call for calm, unity and responsibility to guarantee security and stability.”
Good news for Azawad: The city of Kidal has been liberated by the courageous Azawad army, the FLA. The city of Kidal, the stronghold of liberal revolutions, falls by the hands of the liberal army on this 25th of april 2026. And the city of Kidal is back in the hands of its legitimate sons.
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
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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