Vol 53 No 21 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The media seized on one point in the UN report: a meeting between some unnamed people from Gbagbo’s side with Ansar Eddine the Salafist group under Iyad ag Ghali that controls the Malian city of Timbuktu...
Veteran Tuareg leader Iyad ag Ghali though looks far more approachable than his AQIM and MUJAO counterparts...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- WEST AFRICA
Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré the official mediator has been dealing with Iyad ag Ghali's Ansar Eddine while contacts with the Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO) are handled by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria whom Ouattara values highly as a regional partner...
Having once spearheaded the Tuareg revolt the MNLA has allowed its ‘temporary’ allies in AQIM and its affiliates the Mouvement pour l’unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (MUJAO) and chiefly Ansar Eddine led by veteran Tuareg rebel Iyad ag Ghali to hijack the rebellion...
Ansar Eddine (Supporters of the Religion the Islamist group led by veteran Tuareg warrior Iyad ag Ghali) Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Mouvement pour l’unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (MUJAO) have consistently outmanoeuvred the MNLA...
The Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) had previously denounced any notion of a state based on religion and the jihadists of Iyad ag Ghali’s Ansar Eddine opposed a nation state...
Meanwhile in the northern city of Gao the probable seat of a new northern provisional government the nationalist Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) is in tense and problematic negotiations with Iyad ag Ghali his jihadist Ansar Eddine movement and their allies from Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)...
Tuareg separatists of the Mouvement national de la libération de l’Azawad are in a bitter struggle with a jihadist faction – Iyad ag Ghali and his Ansar Eddine group...
They are referring to Iyad ag Ghali and his Ansar Eddine (Supporters of the Religion)...
The ADC is a broad group including some leaders of the mid-2000s Tuareg mini-uprisings such as Iyad ag Ghali Ahmada ag Bibi and Zeidane ag Sidalamine a diplomat and former leader of the 1990s rebellion...