Azawad

And it is the first time that they conducted an attack or coordinated a series of attacks, set of attacks.

with the Tuareg Liberation Movement, the Front de Liberation de Azawad, or Azawad Liberation Front, FLA, jointly.

I mean, this is the interesting part of it, quite surprising a bit, because it is true that sometimes the two different groups have even...

Yes, between each other.

Yes indeed, 2012 it was the beginning of the sandstorm, as someone says, in the Sahel.

Well, there is a big difference.

The first one is that in 2012 the separatists from northern Mali, from the Azawad region, basically enacted, performed a rebellion which was following the textbook rebellion of the 90s and the 60s.

So they were falling into a pattern that was already quite peculiar to the Tuareg identity and Tuareg military culture.

Now it's not.

Azawad, though governed by terrorists, they were trying to make these promises as well.

What conflicts will arise in the future that we're currently not focused on that keep you up at night? What are the boiling points that could boil over and cause long-term harm? The one to

watch right now, and I think it has potentially huge implications on the African continent, perhaps even abroad in the Middle East, is in the Horn of Africa, and it's between Eritrea and Ethiopia.