The relations between Algeria and the new Mali government weren’t good for a while, sometime ago the new government broke the ceasefire deal between them and the Azawad that Algeria was involved in, Algeria did something that they didn’t like and they cut relations then it went back after a few months, the two countries aren’t communicating militarily because there was an ambush next to the border that lead to Malian and Wagner soldiers losing to Azawad forces, Algeria denies supporting terrorism or the Azawad and continues to call for a united Mali, but it’s talks. A few weeks ago a Spanish tourist got kidnapped by IS sympathizers and was saved by the Azawad and returned to Algeria. These incidents likely made the Mali government not trust Algeria, and not communicate with it, so it didn’t tell Algeria “Hey we’re going to fly a drone close to your borders” because they might suspect that Algeria supports the separatists and will warn them beforehand, so when the Algerian AA in the south saw an armed flying object getting close to the border without warning and they shot it down. The drone type is a Bayrkatar Akinci which costs like 30 million dollars, both sides edit posting and calling each other puppet regimes and terrorist supporters.
Algeria has half a million Touaregs and unknown number of Al-Qaeda sympathizers and it doesn’t want to anger them by supporting a side in the conflict in Mali.
What I think will happen: Nothing, Mali knows that it can’t fight Algeria, Algeria doesn’t want to deal with the aftermath of fighting Mali (dealing with insurgents and refugees).
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If I may ask, you know West Africa, with the AES (Association Des Etats du Sahel), right?
Idk, but Algeria, for some reason, had a spat with them
Breakdown of relations between Algeria and the AES:
https://africanstream.media/alliance-of-sahel-states-withdraw-ambassadors-from-algeria/
https://africanstream.media/algeria-bans-mali-flights/
Timeline:
Algeria shoots down a Malian drone.
Algeria and Mali dispute over whether the drone was in Algerian or Malian airspace before it got shot down.
Mali accuses Algeria of supporting separatists in northern Mali.
The AES withdraws their ambassadors from Algeria.
Algeria bans flights from Mali
What’s your thoughts?
The relations between Algeria and the new Mali government weren’t good for a while, sometime ago the new government broke the ceasefire deal between them and the Azawad that Algeria was involved in, Algeria did something that they didn’t like and they cut relations then it went back after a few months, the two countries aren’t communicating militarily because there was an ambush next to the border that lead to Malian and Wagner soldiers losing to Azawad forces, Algeria denies supporting terrorism or the Azawad and continues to call for a united Mali, but it’s talks. A few weeks ago a Spanish tourist got kidnapped by IS sympathizers and was saved by the Azawad and returned to Algeria. These incidents likely made the Mali government not trust Algeria, and not communicate with it, so it didn’t tell Algeria “Hey we’re going to fly a drone close to your borders” because they might suspect that Algeria supports the separatists and will warn them beforehand, so when the Algerian AA in the south saw an armed flying object getting close to the border without warning and they shot it down. The drone type is a Bayrkatar Akinci which costs like 30 million dollars, both sides edit posting and calling each other puppet regimes and terrorist supporters.
Algeria has half a million Touaregs and unknown number of Al-Qaeda sympathizers and it doesn’t want to anger them by supporting a side in the conflict in Mali.
Some related links
The Algerian accord 2015 https://borgenproject.org/peace-mali-government-northern-factions/
https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20230913-mali-faces-an-increase-of-tuareg-armed-groups-attacks-in-the-north
scrapping the accords https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20240127-mali-to-hold-peace-dialogue-after-scrapping-deal-with-rebels
The ambush https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/29/africa/russian-mercenaries-wagner-killed-mali-intl-latam/index.html
the hostage https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250121-mali-rebels-free-spanish-man-abducted-bandits-algeria-is-group-niger-austrian-woman
https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20250103-mali-accuses-algeria-of-fuelling-insecurity-in-the-sahel-by-supporting-tuareg-rebels
Morocco - Mali: FAR trains future Malian special forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKmcgJSlPvY
What I think will happen: Nothing, Mali knows that it can’t fight Algeria, Algeria doesn’t want to deal with the aftermath of fighting Mali (dealing with insurgents and refugees).
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