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 ” 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.
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