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Reintegration – 1999

The 14 fronts of the former Tuareg rebel movement — Arabs and Toubous — signed a declaration to denounce the government’s poor political disposition and laxity.¹ However, in the same news report it was suggested that the Ag Rhissa Boula, then current minister of tourism and historical leader of the Tuareg rebellion, said that the reintegration of former combatants was a very important step forward. However, he recognized that there might be some portions of the peace agreement whose implementation was being delayed, for example, the reintegration process. This suggests that the reintegration process was still under way in 1999.

1. “Tuareg rebels criticize government’s “poor political disposition”,” BBC Monitoring Africa — Political, March 24, 1999.