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18/08/2022: Today marks the 24months of Transition in #Mali. Happened in the last two years? Maybe a good moment to look back. A short🧵1/ Image
18/08/2020: the Conseil Nationale pour le Salut de Peuple #CNSP forces president #IBK to step down as president. The months before saw thousands of Malians demonstrating against the regime IBK on the streets of #Bamako 2/
In the weeks after the #coup the military junta around Assimi #Goita received good will from international partners, while being celebrated by the Malian population. The junta reassured that they only aimed for the removal of IBK and would honour all international arrangements 3/
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1/EU-Security Committee:
Update on #EUTM in #Mozambique with Vice-Admiral Hervé BLÉJEAN,
INTERESTING ASPECTS:
He confirmed request by #Rwanda to finance military mission and that EU will positively respond (although it is not him to decide on this)/2
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/webstreaming/s…
2/-He mentioned "Wagner" in a very strange way, including their propaganda films (13:59) without clearly distancing himself from them;
-He complained that the EUTM was restricted from operating in #CaboDelgado - - He highly praised the reputation of the Rwandan forces within the
3/within the population vis-Ă -vis the Mozambican forces.
- He could say little about effective coordination between Rwanda, SAMIM and EUTM
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- he failed to answer MEPs' questions on how the EUTM would evaluate the success of its training./4
@EUTMMozambique @TomBowk @Jasminechic00
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Civilians in the #Sahel are increasingly threatened not only by radical armed actors and ethnic self-defence groups but similarly by national armed forces in the name of #counterterrorism. Thread on a few recent publications on #Mali #Niger #Burkina:
1/ This piece underlines recent summary executions and enforced disappearances by Sahelian National security forces in the name of counterterrorism. liberation.fr/planete/2020/0…
2/ As allies of #Barkhane – and trained by #EUTM #EUCAP, Sahelian national security forces thereby contribute to a dynamic that fuels recruitment of radical actors.
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