This people’s Cure Salee festival marks the end of their rainy season. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people whose 2012 namesake rebellion saw their MNLA party seek the independence of the northern region of Azawad.
ANSWER: Tuaregs [prompt on Berbers]
[10e] The largest concentration of Tuaregs are in this country. The MNLA claims that their separatist region of Azawad contains this country’s cities of Timbuktu and Gao.
ANSWER: Mali
[10m] In August of 2023, Tuareg rebels blamed this private military group for an attack that killed two men. This groups’ leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a plane crash in August exactly two months after their rebellion against Moscow.
ANSWER: Wagner Group
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