The director of the human rights division of the United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma) has been declared "persona non grata" and "will have to leave the national territory within 48 hours", indicated Sunday February 5 the ruling junta.
This decision announced by press release comes after a speech violently criticized by the junta delivered by a Malian human rights defender who denounced ten days ago at the UN the security situation in the country and the involvement, according to her, of the new allies. Russian national army in serious violations.
"Destabilizing and subversive acts"
"This measure follows the destabilizing and subversive actions" of Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali, said the press release read to the national television newspaper and signed by the government spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga.
"During the various sessions of the United Nations Security Council on Mali, the actions of Ngefa-Atondoko Andali consisted in selecting usurpers who arrogated to themselves the title of representative of Malian civil society, ignoring the authorities and national institutions", he continues about this national of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The partiality of Ngefa-Atondoko Andali was even more evident during the last review of the United Nations Security Council on Mali", the day of the intervention in respect of civil society by Aminata Cheick Dicko, who has suffered since her speech a violent smear campaign.
The Minusma was created in 2013 to help stabilize a state threatened with collapse under jihadist pressure, protect civilians, contribute to the peace effort, defend human rights...
But the security situation has steadily worsened in Mali.
The junta is openly blocking the investigations of the Minusma on human rights and the abuses of which the Malian forces are regularly accused.
With AFP
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