Draft:Barka Wardougou
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Barka Wardougou | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Died | July 26, 2016 (aged 59–60) Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Barka Wardougou (1956 – July 26, 2016) was a Libyan military officer and a Toubou warlord.
Biography
[edit]Barka Wardougou is a Toubou member of the Teda clan[1] Barka Wardougou was for a time an officer in the Libyan Army.[1]
In the 1990s he took up arms in Niger at the head of a rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara, supported by Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.[1] The movement laid down its arms in 1997 and signed the Algiers Agreement.[2] In 2008, Barka Wardougou aligned himself with the Tuareg rebels of the Niger Movement for Justice.[1]
2011 Libyan uprising and civil war
[edit]He returned to Libya and in 2011 took part in the First Libyan Civil War against Gaddafi and on the side of the National Transitional Council, leading two Toubou groups, the "Desert Shield Battalion" and the Umm al-Aranib Martyrs Brigade. He is considered the first to have taken up arms against Gaddafi in Fezzan, as early as the month of June 2011.[3] The August 19, the "Desert Shield Battalion" seizes Murzuq.[1][2][4] It then takes control of the Waw an Namus airbase and the August 25 of the Al-Wigh[5] at the head of the two Toubou groups.[6] He then headed the military council of Murzuq.[7][8]
In 2012 he played a key role in peace negotiations between Toubou fighters and Oulad Souleyman in Sabha[disambiguation needed] and later in the year between the Toubou fighting militias and Zuwayya in Kufra.[5]
Death
[edit]Diagnosed with stomach cancer, he began treatment in late 2014 or early 2015 and made several trips between Dubai and Libya. In early 2016, he left Libya permanently. After six months in a Dubai hospital, Barka Wardougou died on July 26, 2016, at the age of 60.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 AFP (August 19, 2011). "Libye: des rebelles Toubous se lancent dans la bataille contre Kadhafi" (in French). La Dépêche.
- 1 2 Christophe Boisbouvier (May 6, 2012). "Libye : quand les Toubous se réveillent" (in French). Jeune Afrique.
- ↑ Jérôme Tubiana; Claudio Gramizzi (June 2017). "Tubu Trouble: State and Statelessness in the Chad-Sudan–Libya Triangle" (PDF). Small Arms Survey HSBA Working Paper.
- ↑ AFP (August 19, 2011). "Libye: des rebelles Toubous se lancent dans la bataille contre Kadhafi" (in French). La Dépêche.
- 1 2 "Senior Tebu commander dies in UAE". Libya Herald. July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Europe 1 (August 25, 2011). "Libye : les rebelles prennent une ville-clé" (in French).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Luc Mathieu (June 21, 2012). "En Libye, les parias du Sahara". Libération.
- ↑ Ursula Soares (December 17, 2012). "Libye: des populations inquiètes face à la fermeture des frontières". RFI.