Bilal Ag Acherif
Bilal Ag Acherif is the Secretary-General of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad and president of a briefly independent Azawad.
In 1993, he left Mali for Libya to study political science and later returned in 2010.
On 26 June 2012, he was wounded in clashes between MNLA fighters and the Islamist Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa during the northern Mali conflict. According to an MNLA spokesperson, he was taken to Burkina Faso for medical care.
