This decision comes after a discourse violently pronounced by a defender of Malian human rights which denounced ten days ago to the UN the security situation of the country and the involvement, according to her, of the new Russian allies of the National army in serious violations.
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Guillaume NGEFA-ATONDOKO Andali, the Director of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in Mali ( minusma ) was declared” persona non grata “, announced the junta in power, Sunday February 5. He “will have to leave the national territory within 48 hours”.
This decision announced by press release comes after a speech violently criticized by the junta pronounced by a defender of Malian human rights which denounced ten days ago to the UN the security situation of the country and the involvement, according to her, New Russian national army allies in serious violations. “This measure follows the destabilizing and subversive actions” by Guillaume NGEFA-ATONDOKO Andali, said the press release read in the newspaper of national television and signed by the government spokesperson, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga.
“On the occasion of the various sessions of the United Nations Security Council on Mali, Mr. Andali’s actions consisted in selecting the usurpers to armor the title of representative of the Malian civil society, ignoring the Authorities and national institutions, “he continues about this national of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“The partiality of Mr. Andali was even more manifest during the last examination of the United Nations Security Council on Mali”, the day of the intervention under the civil society of Aminata Cheick Dicko. In an intervention filmed in front of the Security Council, M Dicko, the vice-president of the Kisal observatory, an organization which documents human rights abuses in the center of Mali mentioned the abuses committed by The “terrorists”, but also the involvement of “Russian military partners” of the Malian army in “the commission (of) serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law”.
The expulsion of Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali comes after the Malian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the arrival of Sergei Lavrov in Bamako on Monday. It is the first time that a Russian foreign minister has officially visited this country in West Africa. Since coming to power during a coup in 2020, the Malian military junta called on Moscow for the sending of Russian mercenaries, a decision disputed by her neighbors and the Western countries.
The minusma is “not viable”
MINUSMA was created in 2013 to help stabilize a state threatened with collapse under the jihadist thrust, to protect civilians, to contribute to the peace effort, to defend human rights … but the security situation has not stopped to get worse in Mali. The junta openly dams the minusma investigations into human rights and abuses whose Malian forces are regularly accused.
At the end of January, many members of the UN Security Council underlined the impossibility of a “status quo” for MINUSMA. The Council must decide in June on a renewal of the mission and a report by Secretary General Antonio Guterres stresses that its pursuit in its current form is “untenable” without an increase in the number of peacekeepers, referring to the opposite a withdrawal of Troops if key conditions are not met. The UN denounces in particular the obstacles imposed on the freedom of movement of the peacekeepers, a key element for several members of the Council for the pursuit of the mission which now has more than 12,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers.