Algeria organizes conference on security in the Sahel

Vehicle of the Minusma peacekeepers between Mopti and Djenné, in central Mali, April 28, 2019 (illustration photo).

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Algeria, eager to resume the initiative in the fight against terrorism, is organizing from this Tuesday, August 10, and for two days, a security conference in the Sahel.

She invited political and security officials from the five sub-Saharan countries (Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania) to Algiers.

The meeting will also take place in the presence of officials from the UN Mission in Mali, as well as a delegation from the African Union.

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This conference is organized by the African Center for Studies on Terrorism in Algiers, under the aegis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It will look into the issues of cross-border trafficking, terrorism and clandestine migration.

After failing in the past, Algeria, a regional military power, is seeking to regain the initiative at the security level in the Sahel.

Created in 2010 at the instigation of Algeria, the Joint Operational Staff Committee (Cemoc) intended to fight terrorism and cooperate between the five Sahel countries and Algeria had remained empty shell.

The appointment, last month, of Ramtane Lamamra, the "Mr. Africa" ​​at the head of Algerian diplomacy, sclerotic since the third term of President Bouteflika, gives Algiers hope to recover its influence from before.

According to Algerian sources, the Algiers conference aims to reconsider the dangers lurking in sub-Saharan countries.

It will look into their cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

It is, according to Algiers, to prepare " 

a common base to face terrorist threats

 ".

Algiers is now focusing on two issues: Mali and Libya, a source of concern for the countries of the region.

In Mali, she finds that political turbulence and terrorist threats will only be solved if the 2015 Algiers peace accord is implemented.

In Libya, by organizing elections at the end of the year.

In both cases, far from foreign interference.

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