Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune discusses the Malian crisis. The peace agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 must be implemented, he told the Algerian press on Sunday.
” I ask the current leaders of Mali to return to legality as soon as possible. In front of the Algerian press, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune insisted: to get out of the Malian crisis, we need elections, we must give the floor to the people.
Commonly referred to as the “Great Neighbor”, Algeria shares 1400 km of border with Mali and it is in Algiers that the peace agreement between the Malian government and the ex-rebels was signed in 2015. In its exit, the Algerian president comes back to this agreement: “ Until the peace agreement is implemented, Mali’s problems will persist he says.
Since its signing, the application of the peace agreement on the ground has been sluggish. The ex-rebels recently officially lamented “ abandonment of the agreement ” by the Malian transitional government, before demonstrating ” a lot of worry in the face of the deterioration of the country’s security situation. The ex-rebels of the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) still control the city of Kidal located in the northeast of Mali, in a border region with Algeria.