While Paris maintains that the reduction in the number of its soldiers in Sahel – a reduction of half of its 5,100 soldiers currently deployed is planned by 2023 – does not respond to a redefinition of its priorities but to “A reconfiguration of its system”, Choguel Maïga does not hesitate to scratch the French authorities for their methods and their lack of consideration. “The new situation arising from the end of Operation Barkhane, placing the Mali faced with a fait accompli and exposing it to a kind of abandonment in mid-flight, leads us to explore ways and means to better ensure safety independently or with other partners ”, the prime minister said on Saturday September 25. Read also In Mali, Florence Parly asks the authorities not to do business with Wagner’s mercenaries
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If France has not ceased, in recent days, to warn Bamako against the consequences of this possible security reorientation – the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, went on September 20 to inform her counterpart of the “Serious incompatibility” between recourse to these mercenaries and Western support – Choguel Maïga has chosen to respond to threats with a justification marked by reproaches, an update without diplomatic precaution.
His speech before the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and his latest statements to the press, however, sound like confirmation of the discussions between his government and the very controversial company, described as the Kremlin’s occult army. Like a taboo, the name of this Russian private military company without official existence is carefully evaded by the Malian Prime Minister, Choguel Maïga. Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga in New York on September 26, 2021.
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