Crisis in N.Mali : the incomprehensible attitude of Algeria and neighbouring countries
Despite the exceptional mobilization of almost all of the international community with the Mali recent weeks, some countries which hitherto were supposed to have a common destiny with Mali on security issues, have now became the most hostile to military intervention writes Ibrahima Sidibé of L'Indicateur du Renouveau
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He cites Algeria,considered a regional power and Niger, whose President Mahamadou Issoufou, recently denounced the delay and lack of solidarity of the international community faced with the crisis in noerthern Mali.Hecalled for urgent military action.
Mautitania's President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz who the article says permitted the persecution of jihadists and surgical airstrikes against elements of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Malian territory and L'Indacateur du Renouveau says facilitated the entry of the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) in its war for independence against the legitimate government of Mali has suddenly withdrawn from the situation.
Mali, the "soft underbelly" of the fight against terrorism, would now find itself "alone" were it not for the support of ECOWAS, the EU (AU), France's President Francois Hollande and Morocco's King Mohammed VI, the article affirms.it asks why Mali's natural partners in the region have now apparently left Mali to its fate. Following the invasion of its territory and further destabalised by the coup, Mali is facing the most serious crisis in its history.
Except for Niger, the other two countries in the field, Algeria and Mauritania each have a share of responsibility, be it moral, in the crisis in Mali today,the article affirms, saying that Mauritania created the conditions for a partition of Mali, to solve its own problems of security and terrorism in the Sahel.
Algeriais blamed for allowing its own terrorists, AQMI from northern Algeria under presssure from Algerian army
and security forces to carry out their own invasion of Mali's territory. mali means to recover its territorial integrity with the support of the international community and Ecowas despite the ambiguous attitude of some of its neighbours the article affirms.
To be a regional power , it says, calls for heavy historical responsibility the peoples of Algeria and Mali have maintained ties of brotherhood and solidarity it affirms. The article recalls the curious incidental fact that the commander of the Algerian Liberation Army's regional base in Gao during independence was indeed a certain Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The malian people find it difficult to understand Algeria's current stance and unwillingness to act. The invasion of northern Mali by Tuareg rebels happened as a result of an invasion from Libya with which Mali shares no borders the article points out. The Malian armed forces were unable to withstand the invading forces and the article blames those countries that allowed the armed Tureg forces to transit their territory to enter northern Mali.
Whilst acknowledging Mali's responsibility for what has occured the article also blames its neighbours in the Sahel who ow avoid coming to Mali's aid.It contrasts this with France and the EU's positive reaction to supporting the Ecowas intervention. France is resolutely against northern Mali being turned into a terrorist haven.
The author of the article Ibrahima Sidibé asks how Algeria can refuse to join with the international community to eject the barbaric occupation by terrorists of a brother country, Mali.He says that Algeria shouldbe playing a leading role in the struggle to regian Mali's territorial integrity and that history will judge those who stand aside when faced with such human suffering with 400,000 refugees from Northern Mali and the remaining residents under islamic terrorist control .
Mautitania's President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz who the article says permitted the persecution of jihadists and surgical airstrikes against elements of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Malian territory and L'Indacateur du Renouveau says facilitated the entry of the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) in its war for independence against the legitimate government of Mali has suddenly withdrawn from the situation.
Mali, the "soft underbelly" of the fight against terrorism, would now find itself "alone" were it not for the support of ECOWAS, the EU (AU), France's President Francois Hollande and Morocco's King Mohammed VI, the article affirms.it asks why Mali's natural partners in the region have now apparently left Mali to its fate. Following the invasion of its territory and further destabalised by the coup, Mali is facing the most serious crisis in its history.
Except for Niger, the other two countries in the field, Algeria and Mauritania each have a share of responsibility, be it moral, in the crisis in Mali today,the article affirms, saying that Mauritania created the conditions for a partition of Mali, to solve its own problems of security and terrorism in the Sahel.
Algeriais blamed for allowing its own terrorists, AQMI from northern Algeria under presssure from Algerian army
and security forces to carry out their own invasion of Mali's territory. mali means to recover its territorial integrity with the support of the international community and Ecowas despite the ambiguous attitude of some of its neighbours the article affirms.
To be a regional power , it says, calls for heavy historical responsibility the peoples of Algeria and Mali have maintained ties of brotherhood and solidarity it affirms. The article recalls the curious incidental fact that the commander of the Algerian Liberation Army's regional base in Gao during independence was indeed a certain Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The malian people find it difficult to understand Algeria's current stance and unwillingness to act. The invasion of northern Mali by Tuareg rebels happened as a result of an invasion from Libya with which Mali shares no borders the article points out. The Malian armed forces were unable to withstand the invading forces and the article blames those countries that allowed the armed Tureg forces to transit their territory to enter northern Mali.
Whilst acknowledging Mali's responsibility for what has occured the article also blames its neighbours in the Sahel who ow avoid coming to Mali's aid.It contrasts this with France and the EU's positive reaction to supporting the Ecowas intervention. France is resolutely against northern Mali being turned into a terrorist haven.
The author of the article Ibrahima Sidibé asks how Algeria can refuse to join with the international community to eject the barbaric occupation by terrorists of a brother country, Mali.He says that Algeria shouldbe playing a leading role in the struggle to regian Mali's territorial integrity and that history will judge those who stand aside when faced with such human suffering with 400,000 refugees from Northern Mali and the remaining residents under islamic terrorist control .
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Crisis-in-N-Mal...