Category: Media
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Mali: IN GOUNDAM, THE CRY OF AN OLD TUAREG MAN IN THE FACE OF AN UNNAMED WAR
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In the western part of the Goundam district, a region on the outskirts of Timbuktu, an elderly Tuareg man speaks in a trembling voice. He makes no political demands, offers no ideological agenda. He asks for blessings. He asks for help. He simply asks to be able to sleep again.
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RED SAHARA – SAHARA ROUGE
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“Red Sahara” or “Sahara Rouge” is the title of the new book by Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki folling her magnificient book “La Caravanière” – The Caravan. “Sahara Rouge” reflects a cruel reality that has transformed the once borderless home of nomadic peoples in the great Sahara and the Sahel into a battlefield…
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PRE-COLONIAL AZAWAD & AFRICA MAPS PART TWO.
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If Azawad never existed and was just a fantasy and dream on the social media as Malian Azawad-existence deniers keep saying, these maps, – and there are hundreds of them! – would never have been made and would not exist. Neither would the name Azawad exist in old history books…
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ARE THESE THE “TERRORISTS” THAT THE MALIAN ARMY CLAIMS TO BE FIGHTING?
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Are these the “terrorists” that the Malian army claims to be fighting…? They are children of Azawad who have never carried weapons, only frail bodies and innocent dreams. They are women of Azawad seeking shelter under their tents and on their land, which the Malian army has turned to ashes.…
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Mali: Acknowledged blunder, state lie and security spiral in the South.
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For weeks, the Malian military high command maintained that it had “neutralized terrorists” in Ntjinna. It was only under the pressure of events, reignited by the attacks targeting fuel tankers on December 6 between Bougouni and Ouelessebougou, that the junta acknowledged a blunder committed on October 22 against farmers.