Azawad
Tuareg name for a territory in northern Mali
Azawad
Azawad (Tuareg: ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴰⴷ; Arabic: أزواد), officially known as the Independent State of Azawad, was a short-lived unrecognised state lasting from 2012 to 2013. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) unilaterally declared independence in 2012, after a Tuareg rebellion drove the Malian Armed Forces away from the region. Azawad, as claimed by the MNLA, comprised the Malian regions of Timbuktu (including present-day Taoudénit), Kidal, Gao (including present-day Ménaka), as well as a part of Mopti Region, encompassing about 60 percent of Mali's total land area. Gao is its largest city and served as the temporary capital, while Timbuktu is the second-largest city, and was intended to be the capital by the independence forces. On 6 April 2012, in a statement posted to its website, the MNLA declared "irrevocably" the independence of Azawad from Mali. In Gao on the same day, Bilal Ag Acherif, the secretary-general of the MNLA, signed the Azawadian declaration of independence, which...
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