Mali ended peace agreement with separatist group

The junta in power in Mali announced this Thursday evening the "end, with immediate effect", of the important Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with independence groups in the north of the country, long considered essential to stabilize the country.

The junta invoked “the change in posture of certain signatory groups, but also the acts of hostility and exploitation of the agreement on the part of the Algerian authorities, whose country is the leader of the mediation”, indicates a press release read on state television by Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, spokesperson for the government installed by the military.

What was the Algiers Agreement?

The Algiers Accord was signed in 2015 with support from the UN. It had been considered an essential agreement to maintaining stability and security in the region that has seen a flare-up of jihadist violence since 2012.

Mali's junta blamed a change in the posture of certain signatory groups as well as acts of hostility from Algeria, the peace deal's main mediator.

The West African country has undergone two coups since 2020, leading to military rule and a fallout with Western powers that had been present in Mali as part of a counterinsurgency operation.

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