This is a new cry of alarm. Armed groups signatories to an important peace agreement in Mali “denounce” on “deliquescence” and call on its international guarantors to “avoid a permanent break” between its parties, in a press release published on Friday 9 December.
The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), an alliance of Tuareg and Arab nationalist groups from the north in rebellion against the central power created in 2014 had signed a peace agreement with Bamako, in Algiers in 2015. The CMA had already worried about« abandon » of the peace agreement by the new Malian authorities in July.
“It is regrettable to confess after 7 years” what “the peace agreement undoubtedly suffers from the obvious lack of effective commitments [des] crucial parties for its implementation, namely the successive governments of Mali, the mediation [algérienne] and the international community, guarantor of its full application”, deplores the press release published after a meeting of the executive office of the CMA which was held between Wednesday and Friday in Kidal, its stronghold in the north of the country.
“The guarantor parties [de l’accord de paix] are under a political and moral obligation to play their role fully and efficiently in order to avoid a definitive rupture. between the parties, urges the text.
Political and security crisis
Mali, a poor and landlocked country in the heart of the Sahel, was the scene of two military coups in August 2020 and May 2021. The government has adopted a transition timetable to allow civilians to return to power in March 2024 .
But the political crisis goes hand in hand with a serious security crisis in progress since the outbreak, in 2012, of separatist and jihadist insurgencies in the North.
This violence, which reached the center as well as neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, left thousands of civilian and military dead as well as hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Mali.