Category: Sahel
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Mali: The AES Unified Force, War on Civilians.
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By Mohamed AG Ahmedou, journalist and specialist in Sahel-Saharan political and security dynamics. Barely announced in Bamako, the Unified Force of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) is already revealing its darkest side. In Gargando, in northern Mali, a joint patrol of the Malian army and Russian soldiers from Afrika…
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ATTACK ON LIFE SAVING WATER WELLS IN VILLAGES IN AZAWAD
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Look at this picture… the water is gushing out of a well through the holes by the bullets of guns. Water is a life-saver in the desert! Destroying water wells for the civilian people in a village is part of the scorched earth strategy.
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TIN HINAN, THE DAUGHTER OF A DECIMATED PEOPLE
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Tin Hinan, the daughter of a decimated people, living with the weight of horror. Four-year-old orphan, surviving day after day in the uncertainty of waiting for her fifth year.
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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.
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IS THERE NO SUCH THING AS AN AZAWAD PEOPLE?
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Statement by Khamidoune_Ag_Toumast in response to those who say, “There is no such thing as an Azawad people” … It proves only one thing: that they have never read history… have never respected geography… and know nothing of the peoples who arrived here long before the very creation of Mali!