In its press release, the CMA denounces the violence committed against the civilian populations in the regions of Ménaka and Gao. The organization of the ex-rebels describes them as a violation of human rights and international humanitarian law.
Above all, it emphasizes the slowness in the implementation of the Algiers agreements, signed on May 15 and 20, 2015 in Bamako.
For an anonymous source within the Malian government, contacted by the DW, the declaration of the CMA is "misleading". Before adding that "significant efforts" are being made by the military authorities of the transition for a better application of the agreement.
"We have opened the doors of the government and the CNT to them so that they can take part directly in decision-making on the life of the nation," he continued.
Other reactions
According to the academic Brehima Mamadou Koné, there are prerequisites before the implementation of the agreement for peace and national reconciliation.
"For example, the provisions that we can apply today, they must be applied before going to the constitutional revision which will allow us to be able to implement the other provisions of the agreement resulting from the process of Algiers:
I don't think that this press release means that we will find ourselves in the situation that prevailed before the signing of the agreement (a kind of balance of power between the government and the armed groups of the North). is rather to draw the attention of national and international opinion to the slowness of the implementation of the agreement."
A meeting of the Monitoring Committee for the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali in 2021 in Kidal
Boubacar Sangaré, a political and security analyst, believes for his part that the CMA said nothing new on the implementation of the agreement resulting from the Algiers process and on the security situation.
"The press release does not say anything other than the observation made by the independent observer in the implementation of the agreement for peace and national reconciliation resulting from the Algiers process, in this case, the Carter Center which formulated recently the same concerns about the deterioration of the security situation and the slowness in the implementation of the agreement."
Degradation of the security climate
Still according to Boubacar Sangaré, "The CMA talks about the deterioration of security conditions, which has the merit of reminding us that Mali is still facing challenges related to stability and peace.
In the north of the country, the government's strategy out of the crisis is articulated in particular around this agreement signed in 2015 with the coordination of the movements of Azawad and the platform of the movements of June 14, 2014.
And concludes that "Seven years later, the security environment continues to deteriorate and the epicenter of violence has even slipped from the north to the center of Mali, in particular the regions of Ségou and Mopti which have become hotbeds of instability with disparate conflict dynamics."
It is now Alghabass Ag Intalla who becomes the new president of the Coordination of Movements of Azawad. He succeeds in this position Bilal Ag Cherif.