{"id":40257,"date":"2025-11-08T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/11\/08\/france-urges-citizens-to-leave-mali-as-armed-group-blockade-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:02:04","slug":"france-urges-citizens-to-leave-mali-as-armed-group-blockade-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/11\/08\/france-urges-citizens-to-leave-mali-as-armed-group-blockade-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"France urges citizens to leave Mali as armed group blockade intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>France has urged its citizens to leave Mali \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as an al-Qaeda-linked group, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), has been blockading fuel tankers since September, disrupting the flow of imported goods from Senegal and the Ivory Coast and upending daily life in Bamako and other regions of the West African country. Assistant professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University and Mali specialist, Bruce Whitehouse, joins us for more insights.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has urged its citizens to leave Mali \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as an al-Qaeda-linked group, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), has been blockading fuel tankers since September, disrupting the flow of imported goods from Senegal and the Ivory Coast and upending daily life in Bamako and other regions of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}