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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The African Union has expressed concern about the continuing gasoline blockade by jihadists in Mali.
The situation in Mali worries the French authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended to its nationals to leave Mali temporarily "as soon as possible", according to a note to travellers, Friday 7 November, reports France Info. "It is recommended that French nationals plan a temporary departure from Mali as soon as possible by commercial flights still available", can be read on the website France Diplomacy. "Travels by land are no…
Mali stands almost still. Islamists have largely cut off the West African country from petrol and diesel supplies. A tactic of wear and tear to fuel the anger of Mali's military government. By Karin Bensch.
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…
While Paris calls its citizens to leave Bamako, Mali is undergoing an unheard-of siege. JNIM jihadists have made fuel a weapon of war.
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".
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