During the 1990s, Algeria went through an experience which now puts it at the forefront of the fight against the terrorist threat which remains at its doorstep.
Today, at the ministerial meeting of the Peace and Security Council in the African Union, Ramtane Lamamra, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a proposal to the representatives of the 15 member countries.
It was during a meeting which was chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique, that Ramtane Lamamra, head of Algerian diplomacy, invited all 15 members of the African Union, as well as the affected countries through terrorism in the Sahel, to meet in Algiers.
Indeed, Ramtane Lamamra assured that Algeria is ready to host a ministerial meeting of member countries of the African Union, with the aim of establishing a new African plan to fight against the terrorist and fundamentalist threat.
The proposal made by Lamamra did not fail to evoke “the new vision” of President Tebboune which tends to consolidate the collective efforts of African countries to counter the terrorist threat.
As a reminder, the Head of State sent a message last September to the President of the African Union on the theme “the resurgence of the phenomenon of terrorism in Africa”.
Africa, new holy land of terrorism
After the Middle East, Africa is beset by Islamist terrorism. The continent is indeed the main mission territory of the two most important international Islamist terrorist organizations, Daesh and Al Qaida.
Bad governance, poverty, communitarian violence, Africa is the breeding ground for all fundamentalist drifts. Besides Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso and Nigeria are also under the Islamist threat.
Also at the same meeting, Lamamra exposed the evolution of the Islamist threat in Africa, and did not fail to underline its worrying rapid geographic extension and the danger it poses to peoples. On his Twitter account, the Algerian foreign minister indicated that “terrorist groups do not know borders”.
He said in particular that “recent developments have clearly shown that terrorist groups know no borders; They think and work together to achieve their goal of causing havoc! This is why we, the Member States, are called upon more than ever to work together in unity and solidarity”.
