Tag: Tuareg
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A CRIME THAT SHAKES THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY IN MALI
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This Tuareg woman was killed in Aguelhok, Azawad (northern Mali) by Russian soldiers belonging to what is known as the “African Corps,” while she tried to save her father from the hands of oppressors who executed him in cold blood before her very eyes. What humanity remains in this world…
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AZAWAD AT THE HEART OF TUAREG DEBATES
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Between memory, culture, and political demands, the Tuareg cultural day organized in Rennes quickly became a festive event marked by art exhibitions, Tuareg storytelling, and a conference on the humanitarian and security situation in Mali and the Sahel.
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RESPONSE TO ANDRÈ BOURGEOT AND THOSE WHO DENY THE HISTORICAL EXISTENCE OF AZAWAD.
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I feel compelled to respond to you today, as well as to certain former French officials and diplomats who have described Azawad as a “historical absurdity.” This statement reveals either a profound ignorance of Sahelian-Saharan history or a political will to deny the existence of a people and a historical…
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THE AZAWAD CAUSE DOES NOT DATE BACK TO YESTERDAY
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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.
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LIBYA: THE STATELESSNESS OF THE TUAREGS, A POLICY OF DELAY.
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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.