The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), an alliance of Tuareg and Arab nationalist groups from the North, has asked Algeria 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 picked up 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,» according to the letter addressed to the Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra.
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 was proposed to give more powers to the northern part of Mali, as well as the creation of a regional security force and a development plan.
However, at the end of an internal meeting held on Saturday in their stronghold of Kidal, the Tuareg separatists denounced that the agreement was far from being fully implemented.
«It is regrettable to admit, seven years after the signing of the agreement, the evident lack of effective commitments from the two crucial parties for its implementation: the successive Malian governments and the mediation of the international community,» the CMA made known, before denouncing that the agreements have been «in proven decay.»
