The director of the human rights division of the United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma), Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali, was declared « persona non grata » on Sunday by the ruling junta, which gave him a 48 hours to leave the national territory.
The official communiqué, read on the national television newspaper and signed by the government spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, explains that « this measure follows the destabilizing and subversive actions » of Andali, a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo. .
« During the various sessions of the United Nations Security Council on Mali, Mr. Andali’s actions consisted in selecting usurpers who arrogated to themselves the title of representative of Malian civil society, ignoring the authorities and the national institutions,” the statement continued.
Bamako is undoubtedly referring to the Malian Aminata Cheick Dicko, vice-president of the Kisal observatory, who gave a speech, in the name of civil society, a few days ago at the UN, in which she denounced the security situation in Mali and the involvement of the Russian military partners of the Malian army in « serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law ». This intervention was not to the liking of the Malian authorities.
« Mr. Andali’s bias was even more evident during the last United Nations Security Council review of Mali, » the document concludes. It was on this day that human rights defender Dicko gave her speech.
By OMA Newsletter N° 1037 of 06/02/2023
Article published under the direction of Dr. Najib Kettani
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