The Ouagadagou Declaration is the final declaration[1] signed by the six political and military movements of Azawad, following a meeting that took place in Burkina Faso at the end of August 2014. The purpose of the declaration was to put an end to hostilities in northern Mali and to establish a political and legal status for Azawad.[2] It was signed on August 28, 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. During this meeting, the groups were gathered together for the first time since the Ouagadougou Agreements of June 2013.[3] The meeting took place following the first round of the Algiers peace negotiations in July 2014[4] and before these negotiations resumed in Algiers on September 1, 2014.[5]