2023-04-28 22:11:06
Mali and Algeria affirmed Thursday in a press release their desire to relaunch the peace agreement signed in 2015 between the former Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali and the Malian government and today in bad shape, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities.
“We have examined in a very precise, very rigorous way, the conditions to be met to achieve an effective and productive recovery through a political process that would be sheltered from economic turbulence”said Ahmed Attaf, head of Algerian diplomacy, after a visit to Bamako on Wednesday where he met the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, according to this press release from the Malian presidency.
He also underlined a convergence of views around the methods, approaches and objectives of Bamako and Algiers.
At the beginning of April, the former Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali declared that there was no “no way to build a common future” with Bamako. In December, Mali announced that it was suspending its participation in the implementation of the 2015 agreement signed in Algiers.
Cet peace agreementwhich notably provides for decentralization and the integration of ex-rebels in the national army, is very little implemented.
“They need to stop sinking into denial of reality, recognize that the situation is spiraling out of control”reacted Wednesday to AFP Ag Mohamed Almou, a spokesperson for the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), one of the main signatory groups.
“The CMA will never be accountable or complicit in a selective implementation of the provisions of the agreement advocated by some and encouraged by the complicit silence of the mediation”he added.
At the end of February, the Algerian president had received former Malian rebels who had discussed their expectations and priorities, and developed ways to “to get out of the impasse and the current status quo”.
Unlike the Tuaregs, the jihadist groups continued the fight against the Malian state, plunging the country into a deep security and political crisis.
Several jihadist attacks struck Mali for a week, including one in Sévaré in the center of the country which officially killed at least ten civilians and three soldiers.
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