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Internal Conflict In Azawad
The internal conflict in Azawad has been a conflict in Northern Mali between the MNLA, a Tuareg nationalist group, and a coalition of Islamist groups. The conflict began when Northern Mali declared itself independent from the government, creating the unrecognized state of Azawad. The Islamists and MNLA formed an alliance in combatting the Malian government. An internal conflict sprung up over the imposing of sharia law in the new state and the MNLA distancing itself from the coalition to a democratic state. Islamists gained popularity amongst anti-Tuareg tribes which helped them overthrow MNLA authority in Gao. Both sides clashed repeatedly leading to the Battle of Gao, where the MNLA were driven from the North's two main cities, Gao and Timbuktu. The MNLA soon lost all of its strongholds in the North in a matter of months. They went into hiding secretly gaining support and strength. The beginning of 2013 led to the start of the French intervention in Mali that ousted the Islamis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azawad
Azawad, or Azawagh ( Tuareg: Azawaɣ, or Azawad; ar, أزواد) was a short-lived unrecognised state from 2012 to 2013. Azawagh (''Azawaɣ'') is the generic Tuareg Berber name of all Tuareg Berber areas, especially the northern half of Mali and northern and western Niger. Its independence was declared unilaterally by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in 2012, after a Tuareg rebellion drove the Malian Army from the region. Azawad, as claimed by the MNLA, comprises the Malian regions of Timbuktu, Kidal, Gao, as well as a part of Mopti region, encompassing about 60 percent of Mali's total land area. Azawad borders Burkina Faso to the south, Mauritania to the west and northwest, Algeria to the north and northeast, and Niger to the east and southeast, with undisputed Mali to its southwest. It straddles a portion of the Sahara and the Sahelian zone. Gao is its largest city and served as the temporary capital, while Timbuktu is the second- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic State – Sahil Province
The Islamic State – Sahel Province (ISSP), formerly known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), is an Islamist militant group adhering to the ideology of Salafi Jihadism. IS-GS was formed on 15 May 2015 as the result of a split within the militant group Al-Mourabitoun. The rift was a reaction to the adherence of one of its leaders, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, to the Islamic State. From March 2019 to 2022, IS-GS was formally part of the Islamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP); when it was also called "ISWAP-Greater Sahara". In March 2022, IS declared the province autonomous, separating it from its West Africa Province and naming it Islamic State – Sahil Province (ISSP). History Al-Mourabitoun was created on 22 August 2013 after the merging of MUJAO and Al-Mulathameen. On 13 May 2015, elements of Al-Mourabitoun under the leadership of Abu Walid al-Sahraoui pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. It operated independently until 30 October 2016, when it was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid (born Mohamed Ghadir; 1965 – 25 February 2013), was an Algerian national and Islamist ''jihadi'' militant and smuggler who, in about 2010, became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a Mali-based militant organization. He competed as the chief rival of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian national who had become the major commander in AQIM and later head of his own group. Both gained wealth and power by kidnapping and ransoming European nationals. After taking control of Timbuktu in 2012, Abou Zeid established '' sharia'' law and destroyed Sufi shrines. Abou Zeid was killed by French and Chadian troops on 25 February 2013 in fighting in Northern Mali. On 23 March, Zeid's death was "definitively confirmed" by the French president's office. Early life Abou Zeid was born in Algeria in 1965. Militant activities Abou Zeid was one of the senior members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, (AQIM), an Islamist militant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Mokhtar Belmokhtar (; ar, مختار بلمختار;pronounced in Algerian Arabic as born 1 June 1972), also known as Khalid Abu al-Abbas, The One-Eyed, Nelson, and The Uncatchable, is an Algerian leader of the group Al-Murabitoun, former military commander of Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, smuggler and weapons dealer. He was twice convicted and sentenced to death ''in absentia'' under separate charges in Algerian courts: in 2007 for terrorism and in 2008 for murder. In 2004, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Algeria for terrorist activities.''Algeria: Court Sentences Fugitive Qaeda Leader To Death'', Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 23 January 2012, Internet article. Born in northern Algeria, Belmokhtar traveled to Afghanistan in 1991 to fight with the '' mujahadeen'' against the pro-Soviet government following the withdrawal of Soviet Union troops. There, he lost his left eye while mishandling explosives. He later joined the Islamist GIA fighting in the Algerian Civil War a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iyad Ag Ghaly
Iyad Ag Ghaly ( ar, اياد اغ غالي, sometimes romanised as Ag Ghali), also known as Abū al-Faḍl ( ar, أبو الفضل ), is a Tuareg militant from Mali's Kidal Region. He has been active in Tuareg rebellions against the Malian government since the 1980s – particularly in the early 1990s. In 1988, founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. In the latest episode of the Tuareg upheavals in 2012, he featured as the founder and leader of the Islamist militant group Ansar Dine. Born in 1954 into a noble family of the Ifogha tribal group (an influential Tuareg clan in the Kidal region), his gift for strategic thinking allegedly earned him the nickname, ''the Strategist''. Sometime between 2005 and 2008, he was appointed as one of Mali's diplomats to Saudi Arabia. Battles and wars Role in 1990 rebellion On the night of 28 June 1990, Ag Ghaly directed attacks by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MPLA) on Tidermèn and Menaka, Mali that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boubacar Taleb
Boubacar is both a surname and a given name. Surname: *Sarr Boubacar (born 1951), Senegalese footballer *Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (born 1957), Mauritanian politician and Prime Minister of Mauritania Given name: *Boubacar Barry (born 1979), Ivorian footballer * Boubacar Bagili (born 1994), Mauritanian footballer *Boubacar Coulibaly (born 1978), Malian footballer *Boubacar Dembélé (born 1982), French footballer * Boubacar Dialiba (born 1988), Senegalese footballer *Boubacar Diallo (filmmaker), Burkinabé film director * Boubacar Diallo (footballer) (born 1985), Guinean footballer *Boubacar Diarra (footballer, born 1979), Malian footballer *Boubacar Diarra (footballer, born 1994), Malian footballer *Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946), Senegalese writer and journalist *Boubacar Kamara (born 1999) French footballer *Boubacar Kébé (born 1987), Burkinabé-Malian footballer *Boubacar Keita (born 1984), Guinean-born Nigerian footballer *Boubacar Koné (born 1984), Malian footballer *Boub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Ould Sidi Muhammed
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the verb (''ḥameda'', "to thank or to praise"), non-past participle (). Lexicology As an Arabic name, it has its origins in a Quranic prophecy attributed to Jesus in the Quran which most Islamic scholars concede is about Muhammad. It also shares the same roots as Mahmud, Muhammad and Hamed. In its transliteration, the name has one of the highest number of spelling variations in the world. Though Islamic scholars attribute the name Ahmed to Muhammed, the verse itself is about a Messenger named Ahmed, whilst Muhammed was a Messenger-Prophet. Some Islamic traditions view the name Ahmad as another given name of Muhammad at birth by his mother, considered by Muslims to be the more esoteric name of Muhammad and central to understanding his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wari Ag Ibrahim
Wari may refer to: Civilizations *Wariʼ, Amazonian Amerindian nation **Wariʼ language, spoken by the Wariʼ *Wari Empire, political formation that emerged around AD 500 in Peru **Wari culture, Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in Peru **Huari (archaeological site), ruins of the capital city of the Wari Empire, located near Quinua, Peru Places *Wari, Upper Dir or Union Council, Upper Dir District, Pakistan *Wari Tehsil, an administrative division in Upper Dir District, Pakistan *Wari Thana, an administrative unit in Dhaka District, Bangladesh Radio stations *WARI (Alabama), a defunct AM radio station, Abbeville, Alabama * WARI-LP, a defunct radio station in New York, United States Other uses *Wari (dance), a typical dance of the Ancash Region in Peru *Wari (game), or Oware, a board game *Wari River, or Weri'i, a river in Ethiopia See also *Waris (other) *Warri The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouna Ag Tahib .
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Bouna may refer to : * Bouna, Ivory Coast, a town in north-east Ivory Coast. **Bouna Department * Bouna (Di), a village in Di Department, Sourou Province, Burkina Faso. * Bouna (Yé), a village in Yé département, Nayala Province, Burkina Faso. * Bouna Coundoul, Senegalese footballer * Bouna was a former name of the Algerian town now called Annaba Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moussa Ag Attaher
Moussa (sometimes spelled Mousa) is both a given name and a surname. It is a Gallicized spelling of the Arabic name '' Mūsā'' ( ar, موسی, " Moses"). Notable people with the name include: Given name: Moussa * Moussa Ag Amastan, Amenokal of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg * Moussa Arafat, cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat * Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955), Syrian-born British portrait artist * Moussa Benhamadi (1953–2020), Algerian politician * Moussa Coulibaly (footballer, born 1981), Malian football player * Moussa Dembélé (French footballer) (born 1996), French footballer * Moussa Dembélé (hurdler), Senegalese hurdler * Moussa Diabaté (born 2002), French basketball player * Moussa Diaby (born 1999), French footballer * Moussa Faki (born 1960), Prime Minister of Chad * Moussa Helal, former professional squash player * Moussa Hojeij (born 1974), Lebanese football player * Moussa Ibrahim (born 1974), Libyan spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi's regime * Moussa Konaté (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ag Mohamed Najem
Mohamed Ag Najem (alias ''Ag Mohamed Najem'', alternatively spelled ''Mahamed Ag Najim'') is an Azawadi colonel, who is the chief of staff of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) army. Biography He is thought to be born at the end of the 1950s in the Adrar des Ifoghas massif. His father of the Kel Adagh tribe was killed by the Malian army in the 1963 Tuareg rebellion at a time where he was a young child. At 20 years old he was recruited as a volunteer in the Libyan army under Gaddafi. He served in Libya and in Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ... before returning to Mali to take part in the 1990 Tuareg rebellion led by Iyad Ag Ghaly. He then returned to Libya, rejecting the peace agreement signed between the Malian government and the Tuar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
