From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 46 minutes ago, updated 34 minutes ago
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This agreement, signed in 2015, has long been considered essential for the country's stabilization.
Mali's ruling junta announced on Thursday evening the “immediate end” of the important Algiers agreement, which was signed in 2015 with independence groups in the north of the country and was long considered essential to the country's stabilization.
The junta cited “the change in attitude of certain groups of signatories” but also “the hostile actions and exploitation of the agreement by the Algerian authorities, of which the country is the mediator,” said a press release on state television by Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, Spokesperson for the military-installed government.
“Direct domestic dialogue”
The agreement had already been considered deadly since the resumption of hostilities against the central state and the Malian army by predominantly Tuareg independence groups from the north in 2023, after the UN mission (Minusma) was pressured to withdraw the junta after ten years of presence.
The agreement received a serious blow at the beginning of the year when the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, announced during his New Year's greetings the establishment of a “direct intermal dialogue” to “privilege national ownership of peace.” Proceedings”. The government “determines that the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, signed in 2015, resulting from the Algiers Process, is absolutely inapplicable and therefore announces its termination with immediate effect,” the press release said from Thursday evening.