Algeria Blames Morocco for Collapse of Mali Peace Agreement

On Thursday, the junta in power in Mali announced the "immediate end" of the important Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the independence groups in the north of the country, long considered essential for stabilizing the country. While the Malian authorities justify this decision by the "obsolete" nature of this agreement signed in 2015 between the Malian state and the rebel groups, its "instrumentalization" by the Algerian authorities, the "multiplication of unfriendly acts", "hostility" and "interference" "in Malian affairs by Algeria", Algiers sees the hand of Morocco and its ally, Israel. According to TSA, they are trying to destabilize Algeria through the Sahel.

To support its analysis, the article’s author mentions a meeting that took place in Marrakech on December 23. "Between Mahmoud Dikco’s visit to Algiers and Algeria and Mali’s recall of their respective ambassadors, Morocco has brought together the foreign ministers of the four landlocked Sahel countries (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad) to dangle the promise of access to the sea by making available to them the kingdom’s port infrastructure on the Atlantic Ocean," he writes.

This is actually the cooperation project between Morocco and Mali aimed at connecting the Sahel to the Atlantic via the Sahara, to transform the economies of the Sahel, to improve the lives of its populations and to promote security in the region by connecting the Sahel countries to the Atlantic, for which the kingdom says it is ready to make "its road, port and rail infrastructure" available to the four countries, each of which will set up a "task force" to define their priorities and prepare the operationalization of the plan.

For the Algerian site, this project aims to counter "Algeria and its approach based on the peaceful settlement of crises and aid to the development of its Sahel neighbors to fight poverty and its corollary, terrorism." "In Mali, Morocco is acting like a nuisance, but it is not alone. There is an Israeli source of inspiration behind what the kingdom is doing in the Sahel countries in general, to the point that its actions" have "become predictable," says an Algerian source. And to explain: "It has become predictable, because the Israelis are used to doing this when a problem arises."