El Hadj Ag Gamou
Malian army officer and governor (born 1964)
El Hadj Ag Gamou (born December 31, 1964) is an Imghad Tuareg Malian division general. Gamou is currently the governor of Kidal Region since November 22, 2023, and has also been the head of his faction of Imghad Tuareg Self-Defense Group and Allies since the group's foundation. Prior to his governorship, Gamou served in the Malian army, commanding Malian troops against Ansar Dine and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in the early stages of the Mali War.
Early life and combat
Gamou was born to a family of shepherds in Tidermene, Ménaka, Mali. He is an Imghad Tuareg, which is considered a vassal tribe according to traditional Tuareg hierarchies. In 1980, at the age of 16, Gamou joined the Libyan Army's Islamic Legion, where he met Iyad Ag Ghaly. After a year of training in Libya, and a subsequent six-month stint in Syria with special forces, Gamou served in the Lebanese Civil War alongside the Palestinians. He then returned to Libya after a few years of fighting, before taking part in the Toyota War.
Gamou returned to Mali in 1988. During the Tuareg rebellion of 1990–1996, Gamou fought in the separatist Revolutionary Liberation Army of Azawad.
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