Mali : Azawad Movement Calls For Emergency Talks

The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), an alliance of Tuareg and Arab nationalist groups from the North of Mali has asked the Algerian Government for an emergency meeting in the face of what they perceive as the imminent collapse of the peace agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 with the Malian authorities to end hostilities in the north of the country, in the Azawad region, where separatists are demanding greater autonomy. In a missive published by the Malian media JigiAfrica, the CMA calls for «an emergency meeting with all international mediation in a neutral place» to conduct «a decisive examination of the viability of the agreement, » President of the movement Alghabass Ag Intalla signed at the end of its executive office meeting at its stronghold in Kidal, North of the country.
According to AFP, in the letter dated Saturday, December 10, 2022 addressed to the Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, the CMA said, “they were grateful for the efforts made by the international mediation led by Algeria and which resulted in the signature” of the agreement “for nearly eight years.” The CMA leader “denounced” the “deliquescence” of this agreement and called on its international guarantors to “avoid a permanent break” between its parties. “It is sad to admit” that “the peace agreement undoubtedly suffers from the obvious lack of effective commitments for its implementation, by the successive governments of Mali”.
With the 2015 Algiers Agreement signed between the government and the Tuareg separatist groups, the Tuareg became part of the Armed Forces, a ceasefire was sealed and it wa...