Fuel tankers set ablaze as militants enforce blockade of key Senegal-Mali trade route

The blockade appears to have started with the kidnapping and subsequent release of six Senegalese lorry drivers along the Dakar-Bamako corridor in early September. This is not a new tactic by al-Qaeda's Sahel affiliate - Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) - but the scale is increasingly amb...

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