Algeria regrets the end of the 2015 peace agreement in Mali

Algeria says it has learned with great regret of Mali's decision to terminate, with immediate effect, the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with independence groups in the north of the country.

The deal, which was seen as vital to stabilizing the country, has been a point of contention in recent years.

The junta invoked the “change in posture of certain signatory groups” and the “acts of hostility and exploitation of the agreement by the Algerian authorities” to justify this rupture.

Bamako also accuses Algeria of hosting the offices of certain signatory groups which have transformed into “terrorist actors”.

The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for its part, maintains that it has never failed to work towards the implementation of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, with sincerity, good faith and unwavering solidarity towards Mali.

The end of the Algiers agreement is part of a series of ruptures initiated by the military, which took power in 2020. The junta severed long-standing ties with France and its European partners, turned towards Russia and forced MINUSMA to leave.

Cameroon launched a historic campaign against malaria on Monday. 

The country is now the first in the world to apply systematic vaccination of children, outside of clinical trials, against the mosquito-borne disease.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is a crucial step in the fight against malaria.

Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year across the world, and 95% of these cases are in Africa. They are mostly children under the age of 5.

More than 300,000 doses of the RTS, S malaria vaccine from the British pharmaceutical group GSK, the first to have been validated and recommended by the WHO, were delivered to Cameroon on November 21. It took two months to organize the start of this campaign, during which the antimalaria injection is offered free of charge, according to the government, and systematically to all children under six months of age, at the same time as other traditional vaccines.