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Mali has honored an Islamic judge who officiated for the jihadists in 2012 and who remains under UN sanctions. 24 hours after having asked in particular for teaching in Arabic and the separation of girls and boys in classes for the reopening of many closed schools in the region of Timbuktu, Houka Houka Ag Alhousseini was celebrated like other personalities in the city of the same name by the Malian state, although secular.
With our regional correspondent, Serge Daniel
Wrapped in a white boubou, a big turban of the same color on his head, the judge received from the hands of the governor of Timbuktu, that is to say the local representative of the State, his ” certificate of recognition ». On y lit : « To Mr. Houka Houka Ag Alhousseini, for his service and continued dedication to living together in the Timbuktu region ».
In the name of national reconciliation, a page has been turned. The former Islamic judge of Timbuktuin office in 2012 during the occupation of the land by the jihadists and currently under UN sanctions, is rehabilitated by the Malian State. One of the sentences he had pronounced at the time had led to the amputation of the hand of the young Mahamane Dédéou, author of a larceny.
More recently, Houka Kouka, who has remained very influential in the same region of Timbuktu, set conditions for the reopening of many closed schools due to insecurity: in the compulsory programthe teaching of Islamic law and the Koran.
And as if to make himself heard, during the ceremonies during which he was honored like others, he launched: ” patriotic commitment is also a religious precept as long as it does not deviate from the paths traced by the Koran and Islamic traditions ».