Sky Mali halts flights amid security crisis

Sky Mali halts flights amid security crisis

Sky Mali (ML, Bamako) has suspended domestic flights to northern and central Mali following escalating attacks by jihadist and separatist armed groups, in one of the first visible economic impacts of the country’s worsening security crisis, report Jeune Afrique and Agence France Press (AFP). In a statement on April 28, the airline said its flights from Bamako to/from Gao and Mopti were suspended, citing passenger and crew safety as its top prior…