Here we share the links to some pages that contains reports and show some images and a lot of informative text regarding the violations of human rights in Azawad and Mali.
KAL AKAL REPORTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN AZAWAD
RESUME OF THE KAL AKAL ASSOCIATION`S ANNUAL REPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN AZAWAD YEAR 2025
HERE ARE LINKS TO THE MONTHLY REPORTS BY KAL AKAL:
KAL AKAL- HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION REPORT FEBRUARY 2026
KAL AKAL- HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION REPORT JANUARY 2026
- KAL AKAL
- ASSIWIL POST
- IMOUHAGH
- AZAWAD SOLIDARITY
- AZAWAD PRESS AND MEDIA AGENCY
- AMAZIGH WORLD NEWS
- AMAZIGH PRESS
- TANAKRA
- LE PEUPLE BRETON
- LES OBSERVATEURS
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
- CONTRE POISON
RFI – Mali: More than 550 civilians killed in 2025, according to a report.
In Mali, the Collective for the Defense of the Rights of the People of Azawad released its annual report on human rights violations on Friday, February 6. This 70-page document lists all the abuses committed against civilians. The collective, which primarily accuses the Malian army and Russian mercenaries, indicates that 553 people were killed in northern and central Mali in 2025.
APNEWS – As Russia’s Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes.
TESTIMONIES collected by the Associated Press from families who suffered and fled the brutalities of Africa Corps (ex Wagner – by the name) and the locals talk of a new reign of terror. The atrocities committed on the civilians are the worst you can imagine.
LE MERIDIONAL:
In Mali, the junta uses drones… but according to evidence, it is mostly nomads who are targeted, not jihadist groups.
A controversial tactic that deserves consideration.
A VOX MERDIONAL article.
BBC News Afrique:
“He waved at him to decapitate me” – the testimony of a Malian refugee about Wagner.
The BBC spoke to Malian refugees who have delivered shocking testimonies about alleged war crimes committed by Russian group Wagner in Mali.
Eyewitnesses and poignant accounts claim civilians were brutally tortured and executed on military bases in central Mali.
Wagner ended his mission in Mali last June. But about 80% of the members of the new African Corps, now under the control of the Russian Defense Ministry, are former Wagner soldiers.”
e-GLOBAL, Interview with Abdoul Karim Ag Matafa: Azawad will never stop fighting for its existence.
(Page in Portugese, use Google translate)
Kal Akal: 78 cases of execution in Azawad and Massina in October during attacks by FAMA and Africa Corps.
Azawad: Azawad drones destroy the Malian drone control center in Kidal.
TANAKRA NET – Abdoulkarim Ag Matafa: Azawad will never stop fighting for its existence (Interview in arabic, use Google translate)
JEUNE AFRIQUE : Mali: The Jnim intensifies its attacks; the army and the Dozo hunters execute at least 28 people.
“In Mali, JNIM jihadists, linked to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for several attacks against the Malian army in the Sikasso and Timbuktu regions on October 6, 2025. Over the weekend, several civilians were kidnapped and fuel tankers were set on fire by the jihadists. In this context, the Malian army continues its operations. At least 28 people were executed during one of these attacks, on October 2 in Kamona-Pont, in the Ségou region.”
SIWEL: AZAWAD: Four rebellions, Three agreements, three failures, by Ambéïry AG RHISSA
Report spotlights tensions in Mali military over Wagner mercenaries, link to the article by Reuters. The same report in french by Africa News – Mali : les opérations de mercenaires privés russes divisent au sein de l’armée.
The report, published Wednesday under the title “The Collapse of the Mercenaries… The Failure of the Wagner Group in Mali,” quotes Malian soldiers as saying that Wagner fighters “often operated outside the chain of command,” using army equipment and conducting security operations “without prior authorization or notification.”
The 55-page report, based on interviews with Malian army and intelligence officials, as well as the Ministries of Finance and Mines, states that Wagner “also created problems for the army and government that were mobilized to support them.”
Wagner announced its withdrawal from Mali last June, but the Africa Corps, a military force under Kremlin control, has confirmed its continued presence in the country.
This force, deployed in several African countries, is composed of approximately 70 to 80% former members of the Wagner Group.
Human rights organizations, including New York-based Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly accused the Wagner Group of committing “atrocities against civilians” in Mali. Read the full reports in the links above.
Le Monde: “Wagner dares to do anything inhuman” – Malian refugees testify to repeated rapes by Russian mercenaries. August 28, 2025.
11-08-2025 – THE MALIAN ARMY BOMBED A WEDDING IN AZAWAD WITH DRONES, KILLING CIVILIANS, AMONG THEM CHILDREN!
THE RESISTANCE AGAINST WAGNER – VIDEO REPORTAGE:
VIDEO REPORTAGE BY ARTE TV – THE RESISTANCE AGAINST WAGNER – THIS 25 MINUTE LONG DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE AZAWAD LIBERATION FRONT´s RESISTANCE AGAINST THE MALIAN JUNTA AND WAGNER/AFRICA CORPS IS ALSO AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE ON THE TANAKRA CHANNEL.
The conflict in northern Mali – AZAWAD – pits the Azawad Liberation Front against the Malian government and its Russian proxies. This is the theme of the documentary “Mali: Resistance Against Wagner” by Anne-Fleur Lespiaut, a guest on TV5 MONDE on the Monday, June 30, 2025. The video interview is a journalistic exploitation and explanation of this documentary on Azawad, talking about the Azawad Liberation Front`s war against Mali through Russia.
Link to the interview by TV5 Monde with Anne-Fleur Lespiaut. This video interview also explains much about the Azawad situation.
On Telegram, Wagner’s Russian mercenaries have been exposing their crimes in Mali (and specifically, Azawad) for months.
For several weeks, Jeune Afrique infiltrated one of their channels, a secret channel, where they engaged in a methodical staging of terror.
Wagner’s Red Room: Following our investigation, Telegram shuts down the Russian war crimes channel.
After several months of activity and hundreds of photos and videos had been posted, the channel “White Uncles in Africa 18+,” revealed by Jeune Afrique, was shut down on June 25 by the Telegram messaging service. Wagner’s mercenaries had been posting images of abuses committed, particularly in Mali, on the channel.
Wagner’s Red Room: When Russian mercenaries expose their crimes on Telegram.
For several months, Jeune Afrique infiltrated a private Telegram channel belonging to the Wagner group. It revealed a daily routine of torture, executions, and desecration of corpses, particularly in Mali. Racist war crimes, documented by their perpetrators for a neo-Nazi audience.
Wagner’s Red Room: A “Netflix of Horror” and War Crimes Subscribers
On Telegram, Wagner’s Russian mercenaries have been exposing their crimes in Mali for months. For several weeks, Jeune Afrique infiltrated one of their channels, a secret channel, where they engaged in a methodical staging of terror. A video analysis of our investigation. Severed heads brandished like trophies. Proudly claimed civilian murders. On Telegram, mercenaries from the Russian Wagner group documented the atrocities they committed in Mali , where they have been deployed alongside the Malian Armed Forces since late 2021.
Cannibalism, rape, hanging, dismemberment… Wagner (now Africa Corps) films their atrocities and make profit on them by trafficking images of war crimes via Telegram. This was revealed by the Jeune_afrique.
AFRICA CORPS/MALI : Revelations about Wagner’s torture camps, by Loup Viallet:
Regarding the torture camps, several witnesses told me that Wagner had opened “human butcheries.” One of the most notorious is the former MINUSMA (United Nations Mission in Mali) base in Gao. The FAMa (Malian soldiers), who are actually under the Wagners’ orders, used their position to make ransom demands. Read the entire article:
BY THE FORBIDDEN STORIES – Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali –
– Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian army. Our investigation, as part of the Viktoriia project, reveals secret prisons where abuse and torture are carried out with total impunity.
Their article can be read in english or french.
Tuareg associations file a complaint with the ICC against the armies of Mali, Burkina Faso and Africa Corps.
Related:
TANAKRA. NET – Open letter to the International Criminal Court, Issouf Ag Maha demands the prosecution of perpetrators of ethnic cleansing crimes against the population in Azawad. (in arabic, use Google to translate)
AMAZIGH PRESS – Demonstration in front of the International Criminal Court in The Hague demanding an investigation into crimes against humanity in Azawad. Dozens of activists, human rights defenders, victims, and members of the Tuareg communities participated in the demonstration regarding the suffering of civilians in Azawad. (in arabic, use Google to translate)
AL JAZEERA Azawad Movements demand ICC justice.
ADF MAGAZINE – Matter of 2024 on the Russian media manipulation, disinformation and propaganda machine that omitted or distorted information about the ongoing atrocities against ethnic minority civilians in the Sahel, and the motives behind these atrocities.
ADF MAGAZINE Africa Defense Forum (ADF) – Mali Junta, Russian Mercenaries Unleash Horrors Upon Civilians.
PDF ARCHIVE The ADF articles and PDFs can be read in english, french and arab.
Interview with Akli Sh*kka: Russia is taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to expand in the Sahel.
Spain’s leading official newspaper, La Vanguardia, conducted an exclusive interview with Akli Sh*kka about Russia’s influence in the Sahel region, the release of its citizen kidnapped in Algeria last January, and the key role of the Azawad Liberation Movement in the Sahel in his release. This is the first time the Spanish media has spoken positively about the history of Azawad and its conflict with the small state of Mali, which the French colonialists forcibly imposed on the Azawad people.
Our main enemy is the Islamic State, whose terrorist acts have devastated communities across the Sahel. Then there is the Malian military junta, which has invited the Wagner Group, mercenaries who are committing ethnic cleansing against Tuaregs and Arabs. Finally, there is the so-called transitional government in Bamako, which continues to destabilize the region through repression and mismanagement. We are defending our people from these actors who seek to silence us.
The Azwad Liberation Front is currently the most legitimate and organized agent of the people of Azwad. Recognition is not just a fair, ethical act; it is a strategic necessity, especially for Europe. The Azawad Liberation Front is in a strong position to help defeat terrorism in the Sahel. But we need recognition and support to achieve this.
The Azawad Liberation Front is essential for the stability in the region in that they act as a barrier against instability. Without the Azawad Liberation Front chaos will prevail.
Read the article on the Spanish newspaper LavanGuardia.
The Tuareg: The dividing wall between the north and south of the continent / Akli Sh*kka
Gossi – the city in Azawad that is held captive by the Malian army and Wagner and beseiged by Jihadist Groups. – Ag Akal 05-01-25 – TANAKRA website.
Massacres in Mali : UN accuses junta and Wagner of war crimes, 04-30-25.
Jeune Afrique – In Mali, dozens of civilians killed near a military camp, the army and Wagner pointed the finger.
Algeria Gate: Goita forgot the phone numbers of his rescuers from the Azawad camps. April 13, 2025 – TANAKRA website
Kidal: Arrests, rape, and looting by the Malian army and Wagner mercenaries against civilians – Ag Akal March 29, 2025 – TANAKRA website.
THE AZAWAD LIBERATION FRONT AND THE TUAREG NATION ORGANIZATION CONDEMN THE INTERNATIONAL SILENCE REGARDING THE ETHNIC CLEANSING PRACTICED BY THE RULERS IN BAMAKO IN ALLIANCE WITH WAGNER
Al-Quds Al-Arabi was the first newspaper to talk about the statement of the International Organization of Imohag about the ethnic cleansing and genocide that the people of Azawad are being subjected to at the hands of the Malian army and the Russian Wagner.
There is option for English translation on the page.
Azawad Liberation Front: “We are not terrorists… and we demand the right of the Azawadian people to self-determination“
Wipe the pastoral world and in particular the Tuareg world off the map?
APMA – Education in Azawad: A fight for light in the heart of darkness
FLEE OR DIE – The Malian army and the Russian Wagner militia bloody Azawad
THE BRETON PEOPLE – Massacres in silence in Azawad
Ethnic cleansing in Azawad – Malian junta and Wagner responsible for crimes against humanity
The Malian army and Wagner attack civilian populations
Monthly report by Kal Akal
Azawad: A Wagner-FAMA convoy decimated!
Drone strikes killed 13 civilians including seven children in Amasrakad (Gao region): Amnesty International press release (03/27/2024)
TAMAZGHA Facebook page dedicated to the situation in Azawad
The Massacre in Moura 2022 – “The whites and the Malians killed together.” The death toll in Moura is the highest in a growing list of human rights abuses committed by the Malian military, which diplomats and Malian human rights observers say have increased since the military began conducting joint operations with the Wagner Group in January.
Tribute to the Great men who fell at Tinzawatine on Dec 1st, 2024
The Ukrainian news agency #Gavkcom is rebroadcasting to the Ukrainian public an interview in the French newspaper #contre_poison about the war between the Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad and Wagner’s Russian mercenaries in Azawad.
[Azawad 2/2] “The cooperation between the Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad and the Ukrainians is in its first phase” interview with Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesperson for the Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad – Read the article on Contre Poison.
“We, in Azawad, what we want is not a foreign intervention, but rather to recognize the deeply historical and political nature of the conflict, not to confuse it with terrorism.”
“Our cause has a political dimension and the entire international community must get behind us and help us put an end to this Malian and Russian occupation of our territory.”
Extracts from the interview on Contre Poison with Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesperson for the Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad.
The International Organization of Imouhagh writes to UN Secretary-General Guterres and denounces the United Nations’ support for the putschists and the Russian Wagner Organization at the expense of the Azawadi people who are facing genocide.
The International Organization for Justice and Transparency, Imouhagh, warned in a letter addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, that the United Nations grant of $ 10 million, which it provided in support of the Malian government, would be considered indirect support for the “Wagner mercenaries”, which are internationally and by the British government classified as a terrorist organization.
The organization held the United Nations responsible for the consequences of this dangerous decision and demanded that “its Secretary-General take urgent action to freeze these funds, given the danger they pose to the security and lives of the defenseless population.”
Read the whole article at Amazigh Press.
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