In Algiers
Algeria, already concerned about the situation in Libya and Niger, this week saw a traditional source of instability reactivated at its southern border, over 1,300 kilometers: Mali. After the coup d'état against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK), Algerian diplomacy reacted on Wednesday, as it had done during the 2012 coup against Amadou Toumani Touré, with a "firm rejection" of everything. "Unconstitutional change of government".
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A condemnation in principle which suggests that both "Algiers is in a situation of observation in the face of what is happening in Mali and waiting in the face of what the great powers will decide," analysis Nordine Azzouz, editor of the daily Reporters and specialist in Maghreb and Sahel issues. Foreign Affairs summoned in their press release the charter of the African Union for political and diplomatic convenience. "
For the army, where the scenario of a "Pakistanization" of the Sahel has never been ruled out,
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