UN chief says ‘complex attack’ against blue helmets in Mali may constitute war crime February 14, 2021
UN peacekeepers patrol the Menaka region in northeast Mali. courtesy MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
NEW YORK Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Saturday, a “complex attack” against the UN mission in the West African country of Mali
An assault on Thursday by unidentified armed elements on a temporary operating base of the UN Integrated Stabilization Mission for Mali (MINUSMA) in Kerena, near Douentza in Central Mali, resulted in the death of a Togolese peacekeeper and the wounding of 27 others.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, the UN chief emphasized that attacks against UN blue helmets “may constitute a war crime” and called on the Malian authorities to “spare no efforts in promptly holding to account the perpetrators of this heinous attack”.
Mali, Algiers Agreement under scrutiny
Published on 12.02.2021 at 20h21 by APA News
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The Monitoring Committee of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, on Thursday, held a meeting in Kidal to try to untangle this process.The moment is historic and the place symbolic. Kidal, this town in northern Mali is still controlled by the former rebels grouped together in a Coordination of the Azawad Movements (CMA) which signed with the Malian government in 2015, a peace agreement reached some time earlier in Algiers.
In this bastion of Tuareg nationalists, a meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Peace Agreement resulting from the so-called Algiers process could not be organized in September 2019. But on February 11, the Malian State and its foreign partners, as well as the signatory parties to the famous agreement were able to discuss this consensual text meant to bring peace to Mali. This document provides, among other t
715 APA - Bamako (Mali) The Monitoring Committee of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, on Thursday, held a meeting in Kidal to try to untangle this process.
The moment is historic and the place symbolic. Kidal, this town in northern Mali is still controlled by the former rebels grouped together in a Coordination of the Azawad Movements (CMA) which signed with the Malian government in 2015, a peace agreement reached some time earlier in Algiers.
In this bastion of Tuareg nationalists, a meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Peace Agreement resulting from the so-called Algiers process could not be organized in September 2019. But on February 11, the Malian State and its foreign partners, as well as the signatory parties to the famous agreement were able to discuss this consensual text meant to bring peace to Mali. This document provides, among other things, for the integration of ex-rebels into the defense and security f