00:00State Department official Christopher Landau said Tuesday he spoke on the phone with Mali's foreign minister to discuss security developments in the country.
00:11The call comes in the wake of a U.S. warning against travel to Mali.
00:16Last week, Washington ordered non-essential embassy staff and citizens to leave Mali over security risks.
00:23A blockade by Islamist militants has seen Mali's capital suffer widespread fuel shortages, prompting fears that the Junta's control may be slipping.
00:33The insurgents have attacked and set fire to fuel tankers on highways leading to Bamako in the last two months.
00:40Mali is landlocked and most of its fuel cargo come via Senegal.
00:45Mali and its Sahel neighbors, Niger and Burkina Faso, have been embroiled in a deadly Islamist insurgency for over a decade.
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