Algeria concerned about transition and security situation in Mali

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum, July 13, 2020. AFP Photo / FETHI BELAID

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Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum on Sunday began a working visit to Bamako, his second in less than a month.

The diplomat met in particular with the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta.

He came to plead for the new authorities to commit to continuing to implement the 2015 peace agreement.

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With our special correspondent in Bamako,

On August 28, already, Sabri Boukadoum was the first member of a foreign government to meet the representatives of the junta apart from the mediators of the ECOWAS.

This time, the Algerian diplomat returns to Bamako at a key moment: in full negotiation around the establishment of the organs of the transition.

According to a press release from his ministry, he reiterated 

his country's “

” to “

 ” Mali in its efforts for a “

”

transition 

.

But according to an African diplomatic source, it is above all the security situation and in particular the application of the 2015 peace agreement that concerns the Algerian authorities.

Fear that the CMA will be forgotten

"

" explains this source, so that the difficult implementation of this Algiers agreement does not fall victim to the current crisis.

The Coalition of Azawad Movements (CMA), signatory to the agreement with the Malian state, was absent from consultations last week on the transition.

The ex-rebels felt they were not sufficiently considered in the process, after the cancellation of a series of preliminary talks initially planned with the junta.

For the same reason, the CMA refused this weekend to appoint a representative to sit on the college of personalities responsible for appointing the president of this transition.

A college which should in theory hold its first meeting on Monday.

The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs also met the influential Imam Mahmoud Dicko and the president of the Convergence pour le Développement du Mali (Codem), Housseini Amion Guindo, as well as representatives of Minusma and the African Union.

► To read also: Mali: two days before the ultimatum of the ECOWAS, the junta and the M5-RFP renew the dialogue

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