US EditionFrance urges nationals to leave Mali temporarily amid jihadist fuel blockade
The fuel blockade by JNIM has disrupted electricity and security in Mali, prompting France to urge nationals to leave as commercial flights remain available.
- France has advised its citizens in Mali to leave as soon as possible due to a worsening security situation caused by Islamist insurgents.
- The French foreign ministry recommended departing on commercial flights rather than overland travel, stating that main roads have been targeted by terrorist groups.
- Mali is currently ruled by a military junta led by Gen Assimi Goïta, which has struggled to control the jihadist insurgency plaguing the country.
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PARIS.- A capital without supplies, intercity roads in the hands of jihadist groups, the integral veil imposed on women: Mali has become a hell. To the point, at the end of October the United States, France, Canada, Italy and Germany asked their citizens to leave that country. An uncontrollable situation that exposes the new failure of Vladimir Putin’s “African front”, an adventure of power and territorial ambition that met the same fate in Syri…
France urges nationals to leave Mali as soon as possible
French Foreign Ministry on Friday recommended the country's nationals to leave Mali temporarily as soon as possible through commercial flights and not by land as main roads have be targeted by "attacks from terrorist groups".
Mali: France advises its citizens to leave the country as soon as possible
France has joined the United States and United Kingdom in urging its citizens to leave Mali, issuing a formal advisory on Friday, November 7, warning against all travel to the West African nation and calling on its nationals to depart "as soon as possible."
While Mali has been suffering from a shortage of massive fuel since the Jihadists of the Jnim decided, at the beginning of September, to attack the tankers that refuel it, France recommends to its nationals to leave the country temporarily. "For several weeks, the security situation has deteriorated in Mali, including Bamako," the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs states in a note to travellers published this Friday, November 7.
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