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CSP — Permanent Strategic Framework

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CSP — Permanent Strategic Framework

Cadre stratégique permanent pour la défense du peuple de l’Azawad (CSP-DPA)

AZAWAD MOVEMENTS — COORDINATION & LINEAGE · GROUPING · NOT A COMMAND

Part of Azawad movements — coordination & lineage

Azawad movementsReorganised
Assessed as of
2024-11
Reviewed
2026-08-30
Confidence
moderate
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Identity provenance

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In brief

Coordination framework joining the CMA movements with parts of the Platform, 2021–2024 — the war-fighting coalition that lost Kidal and won Tinzaouatène.

Scope
Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
Subordination
Subordination confirmed
Sources
3 on the record
Record state
Partial

Broad area of activity

Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu regions during the renewed northern war.

Notable history

Formed in 2021 as implementation of the Algiers Agreement stalled, the CSP bridged former separatist and former loyalist movements. When the war with Bamako resumed in 2023 it fought the northern campaign, lost Kidal in November 2023, won at Tinzaouatène in July 2024, and dissolved its fighting core into the FLA that November.

Strengths

Brought former rivals into one framework — the organisational bridge to today’s unified front.

Limitations

Consensus decision-making of a coalition at war; superseded by the FLA.

Lineage & institutional history

Formed 2021Reorganised 2024

Successors: Azawad Liberation Front (FLA)

Coordination platform joining CMA movements with parts of the Platform after the peace process stalled; became the war-fighting coalition of 2023–2024 before its members unified as the FLA.

Key events

25 – 27 Jul 2024high confidence

Tinzaouatène — the separatists' revenge

CSP fighters, with JNIM claiming a role, rout a Malian–Wagner column near the Algerian border, killing dozens including senior Wagner figures — the group's heaviest publicly documented loss in Africa.

Assessed as of2024-11Last reviewed2026-08-30

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Related structure

1 record that this organisation names, or that name it. Every one is an explicit reference in a published record — nothing here is inferred from subject matter.

Named in these events

Dated events recording this organisation as a participant, with the role each event states.