Regional Strategic Dimensions Of Tuareg Problem

Abstract

The Tuareg problem has its strategic dimensions where Tuareg spreads in a vast desert, and this minority suffers from marginalization and difficulty in social integration. The Tuaregs are divided into five African countries: Libya, Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Of these five countries, two countries have not paid attention to this group, and have not avenged their reprisals. They have not been given their rights, namely Mali and Niger, and their leaders and men have been incarcerated in prisons and detention centers. The state and the lack of the elements of the state integrated with the fragility of the state and administrative corruption and the absence of justice and frequent coups.Each country in the region has its own interests in another, and it is difficult to understand the Algerian strategy in the region.Algeria has worked on a preventive policy by providing the economic and social alternative for the Tuareg who are present on its territory, collecting them in the villages and cities of the country and promoting their living, as well as their integration into political life. The Arab Islamic Front for the Opposition, and for the purpose of stopping the armed operations.Libya has played the best mediator in the Tuareg dispute in Mali, considering Libya governed by multiple and heterogeneous relations with Tuareg leaders and their governments. The late former President Muammar Gaddafi had a statement on 1/9/1980 on the establishment of a Tartar state comprising all the Tuareg tribes dispersed between the coast desert and extended them a helping hand through development projects.As for the Kingdom of Morocco, it used the Tuareg problem in managing its relations with Algeria, because of the dispute over Western desert.Mortana feared that the rebels would join the jihadist factions active in the state of Mali to attract young people to ideological and political work inside the country.