Mali fuel blockade sparks fear and economic strain

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Mali fuel blockade sparks fear and economic strain  Now, as fuel trucks burn on the roads leading into the capital, many Malians fear that beyond the violence, the insurgents are waging economic warfare aimed at suffocating the country.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/09/mali-fuel-blockade-sparks-fear-and-economic-strain  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Malians are growing increasingly anxious as Al-Qaeda-linked militants

00:04tightening their blockade on fuel imports,

00:07touching trucks on key supply routes

00:09and threatening to choke off the country's economy.

00:12The armed group announced the blockade in a video last week,

00:15claiming responsibility for recent attacks on convoy,

00:19bringing fuel from neighboring Senegal.

00:21Residents of the capital say fear is spreading fast.

00:24The information that we know now is that the Jihadists have spread information

00:31that they are taking over everywhere.

00:35In Bamako, this frightens us.

00:37We are afraid and we are worried.

00:39But it is propaganda.

00:41They will not be able to take Bamako.

00:43I'm a soldier.

00:44I swear to heaven is that the terrorists cannot take this territory.

00:50Mali's landlocked geography makes it especially vulnerable.

00:55The country relies on import from Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire for essential goods,

00:59including fuel and cement.

01:01Economist Madibu warned the blockade could have crippling consequences.

01:0733% of everything Mali buys as goods and services from abroad is fuel and its derivatives.

01:15So Senegal is an important source of supplies for our country.

01:17It's about stopping economic exchanges,

01:21economically suffocating our country,

01:24and above all, preventing the capital from getting supplies.

01:32Violence that was once concentrated in the north

01:35has steadily crept southward,

01:38with Bamako itself suffering deadly attacks in recent years.

01:41And besides there are these places where there's an extra people

01:46who are only a man to come on and say

01:48and if the toe can take the same place in the back with him

01:49simply become Mostb

01:51or the top of his career.

01:52YouTuber says

01:54Very well.

01:54Pull bad awful.

01:56All the best practices

01:56We will install mechanisms

01:57ariad of garbage

01:57That's something they want

01:59Let's keep them all

02:00To avoid against horrible things

02:01That will attack them

02:02It should be a little bit

02:03To result

02:05Of all rav hone

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