UN Security Council approves Mali military intervention
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved plans for an African-led military intervention in Mali aimed at reunifying the embattled North African state.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/UN-Security-Cou...
The resolution, approved in New York on Thursday afternoon, calls for political reconciliation, elections and the training of the country's security forces before any operation is launched to reclaim Mali's northern areas,according to Al Jazeera.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the region to keep pursuing peace talks first, and the UN's special envoy for West Africa, former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, has said the force would not be operational until September 2013.
Experts say that terrorist groups like AQIM and MUJWA would probaly retreat infront of any intervention force to the mountain ranges on the southern Algerian border.Whether Ansar Dine and the Tuareg Movement for the Liberation of Azwad MNLA,can be separated from the terrorists remains to be seen .The Tuareg rebels caused the division of North and Southern Mali only to be superceded by islamist terrorists. A political settlement with the Tuareg isseen as key to the longterm political stability of Mali but despite agreements in the past they were never fully honoured.
Given the large amount of territory involved sealing borders and covering the ground in the face of guerilla type attacks ,the Malian army force of 5,000 backed by an ECOWAS force of 3,000 is unlikely to be enough. There is also the question of who is going to pay for the operation which is likely to take sometime.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the region to keep pursuing peace talks first, and the UN's special envoy for West Africa, former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, has said the force would not be operational until September 2013.
Experts say that terrorist groups like AQIM and MUJWA would probaly retreat infront of any intervention force to the mountain ranges on the southern Algerian border.Whether Ansar Dine and the Tuareg Movement for the Liberation of Azwad MNLA,can be separated from the terrorists remains to be seen .The Tuareg rebels caused the division of North and Southern Mali only to be superceded by islamist terrorists. A political settlement with the Tuareg isseen as key to the longterm political stability of Mali but despite agreements in the past they were never fully honoured.
Given the large amount of territory involved sealing borders and covering the ground in the face of guerilla type attacks ,the Malian army force of 5,000 backed by an ECOWAS force of 3,000 is unlikely to be enough. There is also the question of who is going to pay for the operation which is likely to take sometime.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/UN-Security-Cou...