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Civil Administration Reform – 1996

Integration into the public administration took place in 1996. Yet different sources report conflicting data regarding this integration. One source reporting from the president’s office on 19 February 1997 claimed that a total of 120 persons were integrated into the civil services. Among them, 20 were senior officers, 20 were higher mid-level officers, 20 were lower mid-level officers, 30 junior officers, and 30 were lower rank. Also in 1996, 100 people were integrated into the customs service and another 50 into the water and forest.¹ Another source claimed that a total of 149 persons were integrated into civilian administration.² This integration of a portion of the former combatants completes the civil administration reform that was agreed upon in the National Pact of 1992.

1. Kalifa Keita, “Conflict And Conflict Resolution in The Sahel: the Tuareg Insurgency in Mali,” Strategic Studies Institute, 1998, accessed June 14, 2011, www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub200.pdf.
2. Robin-Edward Poulton and Ibrahim ag Youssouf., A Peace in Timbuktu, 119.