The roots of anti-Amazigh hatred deeply anchored in Algeria

On May 1, 2025, Mohamed Lamine Belghit, a history teacher in Algeria, declared on Sky News Arabia that “Amazigh culture does not exist” and that it is a “Franco-Zionist creation”.

A large-scale popular march to celebrate Tafsut Imazighen—the Amazigh Spring—was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 20, 2025, in the streets of Rabat, Morocco. Early in the morning, thousands of Amazigh women and men of all ages converged on the march's starting point, carrying Amazigh flags and banners bearing their demands.

The Amazigh World Congress will participate in the 24th session

 of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Amazigh World Congress (CMA) will participate in the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which will take place from April 21 to May 2, 2025, at UN Headquarters in New York. The main theme of this session is "the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within States and the United Nations system."

XLV°  Tafust Imazighen

45th Amazigh Spring

Tafsut Imazighen – the Amazigh Spring – is one of the most significant moments in the long struggle of the Amazighs to restore their historic rights in their country.

Preparations for the CMA Congress in Amur-n-Yakuc (Marrakech, Morocco)

The Federal Council (FC) of the Amazigh World Congress (CMA) met remotely in its regular session on March 24, 2025. It reviewed the two main items on the agenda: the status of preparations for the next CMA Congress and current issues.

The CMA and AIPN representative appointed as co-chair of the steering committee of the intrnational Decade of Indigenous languages

As a representative of the Congrès Mondial Amazigh / Amazigh World Congress and the African Indigenous Peoples Network (AIPN), Belkacem Lounes was appointed on March 11, 2025, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, as co-chair of the Steering Committee of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), alongside three other co-chairs: Anabel Benjamin Bara (indigenous representative from India), Professor Wiseman Magwa (representative of the Government of Zimbabwe), and Paul Pelletier (Deputy Minister of the Government of Canada).

Libya: unacceptable hateful provocation against the Amazighs

A video posted on social media on February 20, 2025, clearly shows police officers and individuals spreading an Amazigh flag on the roadway, inviting motorists to drive over it. This happened in the Al-Andalus neighbourhood of Tripoli, which is heavily populated by Amazighs.

Morocco: The exclusion of the Amazigh language continues

in defiance of national and international law

During the recent visit of the French Head of State to Morocco, the Moroccan and French Ministers of National Education signed an agreement on "strengthening the teaching of the Arabic language" to Moroccan nationals in France.

Kamira Nait-Sid, co-president of the Amazigh World Congress (CMA), was released today from Koléa prison in Algeria, after more than three long years of arbitrary detention.

All members of the Amazigh World Congress are very happy about the end of the ordeal unjustly inflicted on Kamira and her family, especially her mother. The members of the CMA salute the bravery, courage and spirit of resistance of Kamira who emerged unscathed from this heavy ordeal. We express to her once again all our support and our fraternity.

The CMA salutes and warmly thanks all the individuals and organizations that mobilized for his release, including Frontline Defenders, IWGIA, Amnesty International, Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders, Régions et Peuples Solidaires (RPS), Riposte Internationale, African Indigenous Peoples Network, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Union des Femmes Kabyles, Association AFK-13, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and many other personalities and associations.