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 want to create a secular republic the “secular republic of Azawad” ’ rebel Spokesman Moussa ag Assarid told TF1 television in France seven of whose citizens are currently held hostage by jihadists in Mali...