Algiers hardens the tone against Bamako

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, December 19, 2019. REUTERS / Ramzi Boudina

Text by: David Baché

2 mins

During an interview with the Algerian press on Sunday July 31, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on the Malian transitional authorities to " 

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 " and implement the peace agreement. of 2015.

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The Algerian president addresses the Malian transitional authorities.

Its request is not in itself surprising – the return to constitutional order is a requirement of all of Mali's international partners and an ambition displayed by the Malian transitional authorities themselves – but this exit is surprising for two reasons.

First because it implies that these elections would not be acquired, which is similar to an attack against the current Malian leaders.

Then because tensions on the subject had subsided since the agreement reached at the beginning of last month between Bamako and ECOWAS, which allowed the lifting of most of the economic sanctions which hit Mali.

The words of Abdelmadjid Tebboune therefore come against the current.  

In addition, the Algerian president is asking Bamako not to let the 2015 peace agreement die. " 

 ", judges Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

Algeria had sponsored this agreement concluded in Bamako seven years ago between the Malian government and the armed groups of the North, including the former separatist rebels now grouped within the CMA.

The latter themselves denounce 

 " by the Malian transitional authorities of the implementation of the agreement. 

The agreement follow-up committee has not met since last October, but after months of waiting, the government and the signatory groups began this Monday, August 1, work which should last until the end of the week precisely to enable the application of the peace agreement to be relaunched.

This element comes up quite often and the Algerian line has always been for a return to constitutional order as quickly as possible.

It was already a concern that they had before, in fact.

Why this exit from the Algerian president on the need to organize elections quickly in Mali, why today?

Why this exit from the Algerian president on the need to organize elections quickly in Mali, why today?

David Bache

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