Inside the Sahel's War Economy: How Juntas and Jihadists Tax the Same Fuel Trucks

Inside the Sahel's War Economy: How Juntas and Jihadists Tax the Same Fuel Trucks

Ten months into al-Qaeda’s blockade of Bamako, the fuel still arrives. Since JNIM’s spokesman announced the campaign on 3 September 2025, the group has destroyed more than 300 tankers on the highways from Senegal, Ivory Coast and Guinea that carry 95% of Mali’s imported fuel. Yet by July 2026, over 1,000 tankers had reached the […] The post Inside the Sahel’s War Economy: How Juntas and Jihadists Tax the Same Fuel Trucks appeared first on Modern…