In Mali, Transitional Minister Moctar Ouane will travel to Bandiagara this Saturday. He is to be accompanied by four ministers on this important journey to the center of the country. Bandiagara is the first city in the Dogon country, the Mopti region, an area where the presence of jihadist groups is more and more marked. Demonstrations also took place in Bandiagara earlier this week to protest insecurity and demand more presence of the Malian army.
The Prime Minister has just launched the third edition of the “Job and Vocational Education Market”. An event that had been suspended for several years and which the government has decided to update to support residents who are already facing the jihadist threat.
“We felt that by organizing such an activity, we bring hope to the city,” explains Mr S. Touré, Minister for Employment and a member of the delegation, together with David Bachéfrom the Africa service. We will hear something other than what we hear every day: ‘such a village has been attacked, another village has been attacked …’ And therefore there will be 30,000 educational funds that will be provided and set in order to facilitate the socio-professional integration of young people. We have agricultural equipment, threshers, tractors, engine pumps … about 1,100 sets that will be offered. ”
It is not through weapons that Mali finds lasting stability, the minister continues. “We do not only get it by buying armored vehicles …”. The key to this stability is “development actions … that give young people prospects, (to) give Mali access to lasting stability”.
According to Housseini Amion Guindo is inadequate
President of the Codem and member of the New Hope political coalition, formed after the coup, who claims to “monitor” the current transition and even be a native of Bandiagara, the former minister and former deputy, Housseini Amion Guindo judge this initiative too far from reality on earth. “” I think we need a bolder plan … The problem is especially at the level of rural youth. The therapy should go more in depth and not really in the cosmetics at the city center level. “
The center of the country is “searched by terrorists forcing the people to no longer cooperate with the state with the army”, Housseini Amion Guindo continues at the microphone to David Baché.
«It is an area that is actually starting to move away from state control ”. The inhabitants are subjected to racketeering from the jihadists after the harvest; jihadists who “force them not to breed pigs in Christian villages, force them to wear veils for women, force them to deny democracy practically throughout the center of the country.” This is what happens. And with today’s decline in cotton production and crumbling of the rural economy, there is a threat of easy recruitment of rural youth by these terrorists who offer money and weapons. It is by reviving the rural economy that the state will be able to reverse the trend! ”
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