Appointees to this interim legislature include CMA spokesman Attay ag Abdallah and the general secretary of the Mouvement pour le Salut de l'Azawad (MSA) Moussa ag Acharatoumane as well as some of the most senior community notables including Abdoul Magid ag Mohamed Ahmed al Ansary chief of the Kel Ansar tribe from Timbuktu and Mohamed ag Intalla the Amenokal of the Ifoghas – the northern Tuareg clan from Kidal who have provided the core support for the separatist cause...
Vol 59 No 5 |
- BURKINA FASO
Last month reports said his main rear base had been destroyed by the Tuareg coalition which consists of a Mali-backed militia – the Groupe d'auto-défense touareg Imghad et alliés (GATIA) – and the Mouvement pour le salut de l'Azawad led by a former spokesman for the separatist Mouvement national pour la libération de l'Azawad (MNLA) Moussa ag Acharatoumane (AC Vol 57 No 19 Instability goes national)...
Nationalist hardliner Moussa ag Assarid broke away several months ago and now two other senior figures Moussa ag Acharatoumane and Assalat ag Habi have set up their own faction in apparent frustration with the MNLA's patent lack of vigour in trying to make the peace accord work...
‘We all have the same objective of building an independent state of Azawad ’ MNLA spokesman Moussa ag Acharatoumane told Africa Confidential...
‘We’re in talks with him at the moment but obviously they’re not going well because we want different things ’ MNLA Spokesman Moussa ag Acharatoumane told AC...