Public services operate intermittently and queues at gas stations are getting longer. Bamako experienced shortness of breath. Since September, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (Jnim) has imposed a fuel blockade on Mali’s capital, around key supply routes from neighboring Ivory Coast and Senegal. The jihadist group burned tankers bound for the metropolis of more than three million people, and put General Assimi Goïta’s junta with its back against the wall.
“This blockade is primarily a show of force, a way to show that this group is capable of strangling the Sahel capital. They are sending a message, explains Delina Goxho, Sahel specialist and researcher at the Egmont Institute, who specializes in
