In this spring of 2022, in the bush of the region of the three borders, in Talataye, a large acacia delivers its generous shade to an exceptional meeting.
Coming separately, their bodyguards discreetly deployed at a safe distance, they are all there, all the leaders of the armed groups in the North having signed the Algiers peace agreement in 2015. Laboriously concluded under pressure from the international community, the he agreement between the Malian authorities and the armed groups was to put an end to decades of rebellion by implementing an ambitious program of regionalization, development of the north and integration of combatants into the regular army.
The latest rebellion, ten years ago, provoked the worst crisis in the country's history, when Tuareg and Arab rebel groups - joined and then overtaken by jihadists - seized two-thirds of Malian territory, before to proclaim the independence of Azawad, this great desert region in the north…
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