The serious political situation Mali is going through raises in my mind some fundamental questions about the political performance of the key external partners of the country. Basically, what I mean is that we cannot keep supporting national leaderships that are not appreciated by the vast majority of their people. We might feel comfortable with them. But what is the value of that if they are not accepted by their own citizens?
In
this case, France, other European countries, and the UN have been supporting a regime that has not implemented the peace agreement they have signed with their
own rebels and that has closed their eyes in an attempt not to see the rapid
deterioration of the security and poverty situations. The partners played the
same game.
And
now, several years down the line, we have a much graver national crisis, that
has grown into a regional one as well. And we see that the image of the
external actors has also been seriously damaged. That is a sure way of
undermining the role of the UN and of some key Western countries.
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