Algeria, Mali Restore Diplomatic Ties Following Yearlong Rift

Government-critical narrative

This so-called diplomatic restoration is Algeria admitting its strategy of economic blockade and Islamist proxy manipulation ultimately backfired. Algiers spent more than a year economically squeezing a landlocked neighbor and hosting destabilizing clerics, only to abandon both tactics once Mali refused to bend. Morocco's Atlantic corridor is now steadily rendering Algeria's geographic leverage across the Sahel increasingly obsolete.