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Iyad Ag Ghaly
Iyad Ag Ghaly
(, sometimes romanised as
Ag Ghali
), also known as
Abū al-Faḍl
, is a
Malian
Tuareg
militant from Mali's
Kidal Region
. He has been active in the
Tuareg rebellions
against the
government of Mali
since the 1980s - particularly in the
early 1990s
- and, in 1988, founded the
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
. In the latest episode of the Tuareg upheavals in 2012, he featured as the founder and leader of the
Islamist
militant group
Ansar Dine
.
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