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The 2007-2009 Tuareg rebellion was an insurgency that began in February 2007 amongst elements of the Tuareg people living in the Sahara desert regions of northern Mali and Niger.^[1]

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Aïr Mountains

The Aïr Mountains or Aïr Massif (Tamajăq: Ayǝr; Hausa: Eastern Azbin, Western Abzin) is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara.

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika (ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019.

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Abeïbara

Abeïbara is a small Saharan village and rural commune in the Abeïbara Cercle of the Kidal Region of north-eastern Mali.

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Adrar des Ifoghas

The Adrar des Ifoghas (also Adrar des Iforas; Tamasheq: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵓⵖⴰⵙ in Tifinagh; Adrar n Ifoghas; أدرار إيفوغاس Ifoghas' Mountains) is a massif located in the Kidal Region of Mali, reaching into Algeria.

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Agadez

Agadez (Air Tamajeq: ⴰⴶⴰⴷⴰⵣ, Agadaz), formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census.

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Agadez Region

Agadez Region is one of the seven regions of Niger.

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Aguelhok

Aguelhok also known as Adjelhoc (the official name) is a rural commune and village in the Kidal Region of eastern Mali in the Tessalit Cercle.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) that aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state.

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Alain de Pouzilhac

Alain du Plessis de Pouzilhac (born 1945) is a French advertising executive.

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Alain Joyandet

Alain Joyandet (born 15 January 1954) is a French politician who was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony in the government of François Fillon from 18 March 2008 to July 2010.

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Albadé Abouba

Albadé Abouba is a Nigerien politician who has been the Secretary-General of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD-Nassara) since 2009.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Amadou Toumani Touré

Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020) was a Malian politician.

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Amnesty

Amnesty is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term general pardon has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anne Lauvergeon

Anne Lauvergeon (born 2 August 1959) is a French businesswoman who was CEO of Areva from 2001 to 2011.

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Areva

Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France.

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Arlit

Arlit is an industrial town and capital of the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger, built between the Sahara Desert and the eastern edge of the Aïr Mountains.

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Azawagh

The Azawagh (alias Azaouagh or Azawak) is a dry basin covering what is today the northwestern Niger, as well as parts of northeastern Mali and southern Algeria.

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Bamako

Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Bouteflika

Bouteflika is a surname.

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Ceasefire

A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions, often due to mediation by a third party.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation

The China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation (中国国核海外铀资源开发公司) (abbreviated as Sino-U or SinoU) is a Chinese Government owned corporation involved in prospecting, and eventually mining, overseas sources of uranium.

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Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.

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Cure Salee

The Cure Salée (French: "Salt Cure"), or "Festival of the Nomads", is a yearly gathering of the Tuareg and Wodaabe peoples in the northern Niger town of In-Gall.

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Dabaga, Niger

Dabaga is a town and rural commune in the Agadez Region of northern Niger.

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Danet

Danet is a surname.

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Darfur

Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.

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Dosso, Niger

Dosso is a city in the south-west corner of Niger.

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Dounia TV

Dounia TV (Radio Télévision Dounia) is a private press organisation based in the Nigerien capital of Niamey.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

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FIS (company)

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services.

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Force de dissuasion

The Force de dissuasion ('Deterrence Force'), known as the Force de frappe ('Strike Force') prior to 1961,Gunston, Bill.

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Front for the Liberation of Aïr and Azaouak

The Front for the Liberation of Air and Azaouak (French: Front de Liberation de l'Air et de l'Azaouak, acronymized as FLAA) is a rebel group that participated in two rebellions by the Tuareg people in the 1990s and the 2000s.

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Gabon

Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

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Gao

Gao, or Gawgaw/Kawkaw, is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region.

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Goûgaram

Goûgaram is a town and commune in the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger.

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Goure

Goure (fr. Gouré) is a Commune and town in southeastern Niger, Zinder Region, Goure Department, of which it is the seat.

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Government of Niger

The government of Niger is the apparatus through which authority functions and is exercised: the governing apparatus of Nigerien state.

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Hassan Ag Fagaga

Hassan Ag Fagaga, born around 1959 or 1966, in Kidal, Mali, was a Malian soldier and a Tuareg rebel.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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Ibrahim Ag Bahanga

Ibrahim Ag Bahanga was a Tuareg rebel who fought in several Tuareg rebellions between 1990 and 2011.

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Iferouane

Iferouane (Iférouane), also spelled Iferouan, is an oasis town and commune in northern Niger, in Agadez Department.

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Imouraren mine

The Imouraren mine is a large mine located in the northern part of Niger in Agadez Region, about south of Arlit.

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In-Gall

In-Gall (var. In Gall, I-n-Gall, In-Gal, Ingal, Ingall) is a department, commune and town in the Agadez Region of northeast Niger, with a year-round population of less than 500.

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Ingall

Ingall is a surname.

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Insurgency

An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.

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Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

An Islamist insurgency is taking place in the Maghreb region of North Africa, followed on from the end of the Algerian Civil War in 2002.

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International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Islamism

Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.

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Iyad Ag Ghaly

Iyad Ag Ghaly (إياد أغ غالي, sometimes romanised as Ag Ghali), also known as Abū al-Faḍl (أبو الفضل), is a Tuareg Islamist militant from Mali's Kidal Region.

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Kafougouna Koné

Kafougouna Koné (1944 – 10 March 2017) was a Malian politician, diplomat and military officer.

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Kati, Mali

Kati is an urban commune and the largest town in Mali's Koulikoro Region.

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Kayes

Kayes (Bambara: ߞߊߦߌ tr. Kayi, Soninké: Xaayi) is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River with a population of 127,368 at the 2009 census.

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Kel Adagh

The Kel Adagh (var. Kel Adrar, Kel Adghagh, less commonly Kel Ifoghas) are a Tuareg confederation of clans (or "Drum-Groups") living in the region of the Adrar des Iforas highlands in Mali.

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Kidal

Kidal (Tuareg Berber: ⴾⴸⵍ, KDL, Kidal) is a town and commune in the desert region of northern Mali.

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Kidal Region

Kidal Region (Bambara: ߞߌߘߊߟ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ tr. Kidal Dineja) the eighth administrative region of Mali, covering.

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Land mine

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

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Léré, Mali

Léré is a small town and rural commune of the Cercle of Niafunké in the Tombouctou Region of Mali.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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Le Nouvel Obs

Le Nouvel Obs, previously known as L'Obs (2014–2024), Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), France-Observateur (1954–1964), L'Observateur aujourd'hui (1953–1954), and L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire (1950–1953), is a weekly French news magazine.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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List of heads of state of Mali

This is a list of heads of state of Mali since the country gained independence from France in 1960.

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List of wars: 2003–present

Merriam-Webster defines war as "a state of opened and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations".

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Malian Armed Forces

The Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes) consists of the Army (Armée de Terre), Republic of Mali Air Force (Force Aérienne de la République du Mali), and National Guard.

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Mamadou Tandja

Mamadou Tandja (1938 – 24 November 2020) was a Nigerien politician who was President of Niger from 1999 to 2010.

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Mano Dayak

Mano Dayak (1949 – December 15, 1995) was a famous Tuareg freedom fighter, leader, activist, scholar and negotiator.

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Maradi Region

The Region of Maradi is one of seven regions of Niger.

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Maradi, Niger

Maradi is the second largest city in Niger and the administrative centre of Maradi Region.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

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May 23, 2006 Democratic Alliance for Change

The May 23, 2006 Democratic Alliance for Change (Alliance Démocratique du 23 mai pour le Changement; abbreviated ADC) is a Malian Tuareg rebel group, formed in 2006 by ex-combatants from the 1990s Tuareg insurgency in Mali.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Ménaka

Ménaka (Berber: ⵎⵏⴾⴰ) is a town and urban commune in Ménaka Cercle and Ménaka Region in eastern Mali.

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Ministry of Interior, Public Safety and Decentralization (Niger)

The Ministry of Interior, Public Safety and Decentralization of the Government of Niger is the government authority responsible for policing, internal security and the ongoing process of decentralization of authority to the Regions, Departments, and Communes of Niger.

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Moussa Kaka

Moussa Kaka is a Nigerien radio journalist and director of Maradi based station Saraounia FM, as well as a correspondent for France's Radio France International.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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N'Djamena

N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad.

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Nampalari

Nampalari is a rural commune in the Cercle of Niono in the Ségou Region of Mali.

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National Assembly (Mali)

The National Assembly of Mali (Bambara: Mali depitebulon) is the unicameral country's legislative body of 147 voting members.

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National Assembly (Niger)

The unicameral National Assembly is Niger's legislative body.

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Niamey

Niamey is the capital and largest city of Niger.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Niger Armed Forces

The Niger Armed Forces (Forces armées nigériennes, FAN) includes military armed force service branches (Niger Army and Niger Air Force), paramilitary services branches (National Gendarmerie of Niger and National Guard of Niger) and the National Police of Niger.

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Niger Movement for Justice

The Nigerien's Movement for Justice (French: Mouvement des Nigériens pour la justice, MNJ) is a largely ethnic Tuareg militant group based in northern Niger.

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Niger Rapid Intervention Company

The Niger Rapid Intervention Company is a 130-man special forces unit trained by the United States Military to conduct counter-terrorist operations in 2003 to 2006 in Niger.

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Niger-Mali Tuareg Alliance

The Niger-Mali Tuareg Alliance (French: Alliance Touareg Niger-Mali), abbreviated ATNM was a political and military organization between Malian Tuaregs of the Adrar des Ifoghas and Nigerien Tuaregs.

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Nioro du Sahel

Nioro du Sahel, often referred to as simply Nioro, is a town and urban commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes.

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Nuclear power in France

Since the mid 1980s, the largest source of electricity in France has been nuclear power, with a generation of 379.5 TWh in 2019 and a total electricity production of.

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Omar Bongo

Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon for almost 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009.

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Operation Juniper Shield

Operation Juniper Shield, formerly known as Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS), is the military operation conducted by the United States and partner nations in the Saharan and Sahel regions of Africa, consisting of counterterrorism efforts and policing of arms and drug trafficking across central Africa.

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Orano Cycle

Orano Cycle, formerly COGEMA (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) and Areva NC, is a French nuclear fuel company.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou or Wagadugu is the capital of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation.

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Pan Sahel Initiative

The Pan-Sahel Initiative, according to a November 7, 2002, by the Office of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, was "a State-led effort to assist Mali, Niger, Chad, and Mauritania in detecting and responding to suspicious movement of people and goods across and within their borders through training, equipment and cooperation.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Prefect

Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.

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Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio news network of France.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara

Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara (Forces armées révolutionnaires du Sahara, FARS) is a Toubou militant group in Niger, presumably of separatist intentions, who kidnapped two Italian tourists in August 2006.

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Rhissa Ag Boula

Rhissa Ag Boula is a Nigerien Tuareg politician and former leader of rebel factions in both the 1990–1995 and the 2007–2009 Tuareg based Insurgencies.

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Robert Fowler (diplomat)

Robert R. Fowler (born 18 August 1944) is a Canadian diplomat and was the special envoy of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Niger from mid-2008 to 2009, to find a solution to the conflict in Agadez region.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Ségou

Ségou (italic, Segu) is a town and an urban commune in south-central Mali that lies northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger.

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Sirte

Sirte (سِرْت), also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrte, is a city in Libya.

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Special forces

Special forces or special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations.

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Stuff (company)

Stuff Ltd (previously Fairfax New Zealand) is a privately held news media company operating in New Zealand.

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Tahoua

Tahoua is a city in Niger and the administrative centre of the Department of Tahoua and the larger Tahoua Region.

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Tanout

Tanout is a town in southern Niger.

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Ténéré

The Ténéré (Tuareg: Tenere, literally: "desert") is a desert region in south central Sahara.

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Tchirozerine

Tchirozerine is a town and urban commune in Niger.

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Tessalit

Tessalit is a rural commune and village in the Kidal Region of Mali.

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Tezirzaït

Tezirzaït (var. Tazerzait, Tezirzayt, Tezirzik) is a village in the Aïr Massif of northern Niger.

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Tigherghar

Tigherghar is a town in soutwestern Algeria.

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Tinzaouaten

Tinzaouaten (var. Tinzawatene and Tin-Zaouatene; تين ظواتين) is a Saharan rural commune in the far northeast of Mali on the Algerian border.

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Tombouctou Region

Tombouctou Region or Timbuktu Region (Bambara: ߕߎߡߎߕߎ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ, Tumutu Dineja) is one of the administrative regions of Mali.

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Toubou people

The Toubou or Tubu (from Old Tebu, meaning "rock people") are an ethnic group native to the Tibesti Mountains that inhabit the central Sahara in northern Chad, southern Libya, northeastern Niger, and northwestern Sudan.

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Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative

The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) is an interagency plan by the United States government, combining efforts by both civil and military agencies, "to combat terrorism in Trans-Saharan Africa.

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Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.

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Tuareg people

The Tuareg people (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria.

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Tuareg rebellion

Tuareg rebellion may refer to various armed conflicts involving the Tuareg people of the northern parts of Mali and Niger and the western parts of Libya. Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009) and Tuareg rebellion are civil wars in Mali, civil wars in Niger and Tuareg rebellions.

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Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964)

The Tuareg rebellion of 1962–1964, sometimes called the First Tuareg Rebellion or the Alfellaga, was an insurgency by populations of what is now northern Mali begun shortly after the nation achieved independence from France in 1960. Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009) and Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964) are Berberism, civil wars in Mali, rebellions in Mali and Tuareg rebellions.

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Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)

From 1990 to 1995, a rebellion by various Tuareg groups took place in Niger and Mali, with the aim of achieving autonomy or forming their own nation-state. Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009) and Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) are Berberism, civil wars in Mali, civil wars in Niger, rebellions in Mali and Tuareg rebellions.

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TVNZ

Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_rebellion_(2007–2009)

Also known as 2007 Tuareg rebellion, Second Tuareg Rebellion, Second Tuareg insurgency, Second Tuareg insurgency in Niger, Tuareg Rebellion (2007-present), Tuareg rebellion (2007-09).

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See also

2007 in Mali

2007 in Niger

2008 in Mali

2008 in Niger

2009 in Mali

2009 in Niger