Violence against Tuareg populations of the Azawad (2018-2023) — compiled record

1. Methodological note and provenance

This document brings together a list of localities, dates and casualty figures for attacks that targeted populations in the Azawad region (Ménaka, Gao, Ansongo, Gourma) between 2018 and 2023.

Source: list transmitted via personal communication, Charles Grémont, historian, research fellow at IRD (UMR LPED), on 25 September 2026. The document received does not specify the chain of primary sources (institutional reports, press, local testimonies) behind each figure.

These figures have therefore not been independently verified through systematic cross-checking with open sources (reports of the UN Security Council's Panel of Experts on Mali, International Crisis Group, MINUSMA, local and international press). Some categories (per-locality tallies and area-wide tallies spanning several years) may partially overlap.

This document should therefore be read as a compilation shared for community remembrance and documentation purposes, to be cross-checked against verifiable sources, and not as an officially established or validated record.

2. I. Attacks recorded by locality (2018-2023)

Abougoulou (Ménaka) — 19 déc. 2018: 34 civilians

Tegharert et Inekar Ouest (Ménaka) — 15 janv. 2019: 79 civilians

Amalawlaw (Ansongo) — 15 janv. 2019: 34 civilians

Tin-Azir (Ansongo) — 1 fév. 2019: 56 civilians

Intahaka (Gao) — 24 avr. 2019: 67 civilians

Agharanbogo (Ménaka) — 3 juin 2021: 80 civilians

Karou — 8 août 2021: 13 civilians

Watagouna — 8 août 2021: 45 civilians

Daou-Tedjeft — 8 août 2021: 47 civilians

Dirga — 8 août 2021: 39 civilians

Intakoiret — 20 mars 2022: 45 civilians

Ansongo (area) — 26 March 2022: not quantified (several civilians killed and displaced)

Tamalat — mi-mars 2022: 153 civilians, 63 wounded (including 25 women and 7 children)

Tinabaw — 2022: 48 civilians

Talatayt — 2022: 184 civilians (including women and children)

Inwelan — 2022: 110 civilians

Essaylal (Ménaka) — 2022 / 12 août 2022: 95 civilians

Insinanan — 2022: 234 civilians

Wassaka — 2022: 300 civilians

Djebock — 2022: 67 civilians

Tinahima — 2022: 17 civilians

Intililt — 2022: 45 civilians

Tessit — 2022: 80 civilians

Tagharoust — 2022: 84 civilians

Adiora — 2022: 89 civilians (including the mayor, Samakatou Ag Yousset)

Tinadjarot — 2022: 78 civilians

Intagoit — 2022: 35 civilians

Ingarzabane — 2022: 73 civilians (including women)

Inkalafane — 2022: 18 civilians

Tintachori (Ménaka) — 2022: 78 civilians

Infinjar (Ménaka) — 2022: 70 civilians

Agdalinta — 2019-2022: 12 civilians

3. II. Aggregated tallies by area (2019-2023)

These figures group several incidents over the stated period and area; they may overlap with some events listed in the previous chapter.

Gossi — 2019-2023: 700 Tuareg civilians killed.

Gao (zone) — 2019-2023: 800 Tuareg civilians killed.

Adaramboukare (zone) — 2019-2023: 865 Tuareg civilians killed.

4. III. Marabouts, traditional chiefs and community figures killed

Marabouts, scholars and Islamic clerics (oulémas) killed: 176 (affected areas: Ménaka, Gao, Tinahima, Gourma, Haoussa).

Traditional chiefs and community figures killed: 187.

5. Further reading

For the historical and political context of the conflict opposing, in the Ménaka region, Fulani and Dawsahaq populations — and more broadly the dynamics of violence, protection and reprisal in northern Mali since 2000 — see: Charles Grémont, "Dans le piège des offres de violence. Concurrences, protections et représailles dans la région de Ménaka (Nord-Mali, 2000-2018)", Hérodote, no. 172, La Découverte, 2019/1, p. 43-62.

Open sources useful for cross-checking casualty figures: reports of the UN Security Council's Panel of Experts on Mali; International Crisis Group, "Frontière Niger-Mali: mettre l'outil militaire au service d'une approche politique", Africa Report No. 261, 12 June 2018; MINUSMA human rights reports; specialized press (Jeune Afrique, RFI, Dépêches du Mali).

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خاتمة

This record, shared as community documentation, calls to be cross-checked and completed over time with verifiable sources, in respect for the memory of the victims and the rigor owed to facts of this gravity.

المراجع

• Grémont, Charles (2019), « Dans le piège des offres de violence. Concurrences, protections et représailles dans la région de Ménaka (Nord-Mali, 2000-2018) », Hérodote, n°172, La Découverte, 2019/1, p. 43-62.
• International Crisis Group (2018), « Frontière Niger-Mali : mettre l'outil militaire au service d'une approche politique », Rapport Afrique, n°261, 12 juin.