The coordination of the movements of Azawad (CMA) claims to follow with “a lot of concern the continuous degradation of the socio -political situation”.
Le Monde with AFP
Armed groups signatory to an important peace agreement in Mali deplore “with concern”, in a statement published on Sunday July 17, its “abandonment” by the current transitional authorities. The coordination of the movements of Azawad (CMA), an alliance of Tuareg groups and Arab nationalists of the North in rebellion against the central power, created in 2014 then signatory of a peace agreement with Bamako in 2015, also claims to follow with ” Much concern The continuous degradation of the socio -political situation “in Mali.
The text was broadcast after a meeting of the CMA in Kidal (North), Saturday and Sunday, in the presence in particular of the Malian administrative authorities and representatives of MINUSMA, the Mission of the United Nations in Mali. The country was the scene of two military coups in August 2020 and May 2021. The government adopted a transitional calendar to allow a return of civilians in power in March 2024. But the political crisis goes hand in hand with a Serious security crisis in progress since the trigger, in 2012, of independence and jihadist insurrections in the North.
These violence, which won center of Mali as well as neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, left thousands of civil and military deaths as well as hundreds of thousands of displaced. The CMA “condemns all forms of violence and terrors exerted on the civilian population” and “deplores the absence of an appropriate response to this dramatic situation”, according to the press release. She “notes with concern about the abandonment of the implementation of the [Algiers] agreement since the advent of the transition and reserves the right to draw all the consequences”.
A new chef
In a previous release in March, the CMA had “regretted the total absence of progress in the implementation of the agreement” under the transitional authorities. The Algiers agreement provides for the integration of ex-rebels into the Malian defense forces, as well as greater autonomy in the regions. It is considered crucial for stabilization of the country, but its application remains embryonic.
The meeting on Saturday and Sunday also acted a change at the head of the CMA, where Bilal AG Acherif was replaced by Alghabas Ag Intalla, presented as close to the Malian Tuareg chef Iyad Ag Ghaly, leader of the group to Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel, linked to al-Qaeda.