Coordination of Azawad Movements

Mali resistance coalition

Coordination of Azawad Movements
ⵜⴰⵙⵈ ⵏ ⵜⵏⴰⴾⵔⵢⵓⵏ ⵜⵢⵏ ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴰⴷ تنسيقية الحركات الأزوادية Coordination des mouvements de l'Azawad
Leaders	Bilal Ag Acherif Alghabass Ag Intalla Mohamed Ag Najem Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati X Ibrahim Ould Handa[1]
Dates of operation	28 October 2014 – present
Headquarters	Kidal (until 2023)
Active regions	Azawad/northern Mali
Ideology	Nationalism Azawad Autonomy Berberism

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The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) (Tamasheq: ⵜⴰⵙⵈ ⵏ ⵜⵏⴰⴾⵔⵢⵓⵏ ⵜⵢⵏ ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴰⴷ; Arabic: تنسيقية الحركات الأزوادية; French: Coordination des mouvements de l'Azawad) is a large coalition of Tuareg independentist and Arab nationalist groups which formed in Mali during the Northern Mali conflict in 2014.^[2]

Organization

The CMA was founded on 28 October 2014 as an alliance of three separate rebel groups:

• The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)
• The High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA)
• A faction of the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA) active in and around the Timbuktu Region^[3]

Other groups claim to belong to the CMA but are not recognized by its founding members:

• The Coordination of Patriotic Resistance Movements and Forces [fr] (CMFPR)
• The Coalition of the People of Azawad (CPA)
• The Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA)

The CMA is currently chaired by Ibrahim Ould Handa as of 2023.^[1] Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, president of the CMA from 2017 to 2018, was assassinated in Bamako on April 13, 2021.^[4][5]

See also

• Azawad
• Tuareg rebellions
• Mali War

References