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.
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