The head of the human rights division of the Minusma expelled from Mali
Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali (here in 2011) is no longer welcome on the territory of Mali, at the beginning of February 2023. © SIA KAMBOU / AFP
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The expulsion of the UN leader comes after the critical intervention of Aminata Dicko at the UN Security Council.
It follows that of the representative of ECOWAS and that of the French ambassador, after the departure of Barkhane.
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With our correspondent in New York,
Carrie Nooten
and
David Baché,
from
the Africa service
48 hours is the deadline officially announced by the spokesperson for the Malian junta in a press release on television for Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali to leave the territory.
Reason invoked: the supposed partiality of the director of the human rights division of the Minusma.
The transitional authorities accuse him of having put forward Aminata Dicko as a representative of civil society on the Security Council eight days ago.
The vice-president of the Kisal observatory had not hesitated to denounce the security situation in the country and the involvement, according to her, of the new Russian allies of the national army in serious violations… which had made Bamako furious.
The UN told RFI "to
regret the decision of the Malian government
", while affirming that the Minusma "
will continue the execution of its mandate, including with regard to human rights
";
she has not yet confirmed, however, whether
Aminata Dicko
had indeed been invited by the director of the human rights division of Minusma, as the junta suggests, or by Japan directly, which chaired the Council in January .
But what is certain is that Guillaume Ngefa has been in the crosshairs of the Malian authorities for a long time.
He almost got kicked out six months ago.
The Congolese has headed the human rights and protection division of Minusma since its creation in 2013. This division is responsible for investigating crimes committed by all actors present in Mali: it had also documented the allegations of Barkhane's abuses in Bounti in 2022. And she claims in vain access to supposed army sites of abuse, the latest being the village of Moura.
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