FINAL DECLARATION OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL WAS HELD IN TINZAWATENE.
On September 3 and 4, 2025, the first session of the Revolutionary Council was held in Tinzawaten, a resistance town, under the chairmanship of its President, Mr. Adgaymar AG Alhousseyni.
This session was attended by members of the Revolutionary Council, members of the Executive Board, representatives of traditional legitimacy, civil society, representatives of the Azawad Liberation Front Armed Forces, Defense and Security Forces, and youth and women’s representatives.
The session’s agenda included the following items:
- The reorganization and revitalization of the Revolutionary Council’s administration.
- The adoption of the draft Internal Regulations.
- The adoption of the draft Action Plan of the Revolutionary Council. Following the President’s opening speech, the session focused on two points:
- The need for unity as a prerequisite for the success of the Azawad people’s struggle for their right to self-determination.
- The need for general mobilization to meet the demands of the moment.
Let us recall the honor pact of the CSP-DPA movements of November 30, 2024.
- Considering the volatile security context.
- Considering the need to breathe new life into the Azawad people’s struggle.
- Considering the need to strengthen cohesion within the structures of the Azawad Liberation Front.
- Considering the need to respond to the pressing demand of the Azawadian people to strengthen their unity. – Considering the hostile and illegal occupation of Azawad by foreign forces.
- Condemning the killings, the plundering of property, the destruction of ecosystems, and the displacement of people from their land by the Bamako junta and its mercenary Africa Corps auxiliaries.
- The session adopted an organizational structure based on the division of the bureau’s members into 12 working committees.
- The session also adopted an annual action plan.
- The session adopted the rules of procedure governing its internal functioning.
The session recommends:
— Organizing training sessions for members of the Revolutionary Council
— Conducting awareness-raising and information missions on the role of the Revolutionary Council
- The session calls on the Secretary General of the Azawad Liberation Front to create mechanisms to promote equity and peace for the people of Azawad.
- The session calls for unity in the face of the security, political, and humanitarian challenges that threaten our people.
- The session commends the determination of the Azawad fighters for their efforts in the struggle to achieve self-determination.
Special thanks are extended to the Secretary General of the Azawad Liberation Front for his efforts in leading the actions of the Azawad Liberation Front.
Special thanks are also extended to the women and youth for their continued commitment.
Done in Tinzawaten, September 4, 2025
The session
This revolutionary council (the Guardian Revolutionary Council, #CRA) is an exemplary structure. An entire people are coming together to unite against the oppression and occupation. Their resistance only get stronger the more the oppressors tries to break them.
Just look back to 1963, that`s when it started (the revolutions) but the resistance against occupation of their land and the attempts of erasing their culture started when the first French colonizers set foot in the Sahara as invaders.
Azawad is not Mali.
Azawad never was Mali.
Azawad will never be Mali.
Freedom for Azawad.
Azawad is a historic and just cause.
AZAWAD: AN EXISTENCE THAT IS SNATCHED AND NOT GIVEN.
During this conference that was held in Tinzawatene to mark the formation of the Azawad Revolutionary Council, President Bilal Ag Acharif said in a speech:
“Azawad exists, and were it not for its existence, the East and the West would not have united to fight it. Existence is not given as a gift; it is the existence of a people on their land.”
From Tinzawatene in the Sahara desert they sent a clear message – Azawad is re-declaring its political and national presence from the heart of the Sahara, not from distant capitals.
Since a long time (!!) International and regional rhetoric has attempted to reduce Azawad to an “illusion” or a “separatist demand.” DESPITE the fact that history, geopgraphy and the people themselves for generations proves that Azawad has been – and still is – firmly rooted in the Sahara where its people have lived for centuries, forging a unique culture.
The existence of Azawad is not merely a political slogan; it is a social, cultural, and geographical reality.
If Azawad had never existed as they try to say – Why all this military, political, and intelligence mobilization against Azawad if it never existed in the first place?
The main points of the President’s speech:
Proof of existence: The Azawadi people exist on their land since millenia. They have a long and ancient history, culture and languages, and writing.
Resistance to marginalization: This is confronting all attempts at erasure and exclusion.
Strategic action: The manifestation and building of revolutionary political institutions such as the “Azawadi Revolutionary Council” to embody this existence in practical reality. Not only a historical existence, but a living existence that exist now and shapes the future.
This meeting in Tinzawatene is a renewed declaration that Azawad exists and is proof that its people are shaping their future by their own will.
Azawad Support Group
13-09-25