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Is Mali about to fall to al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM? | Al Jazeera
Source: Al Jazeera | 6 November 2025
The al-Qaeda-linked group JNIM wants to incite popular discontent and pressure Mali’s military government, experts say.
A months-long siege on the Malian capital, Bamako, by the armed al-Qaeda affiliate group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has brought the city to breaking point, causing desperation among residents and, according to analysts, placing increasing pressure on the military government to negotiate with the group – something it has refused to do before now.
JNIM’s members have created an effective economic and fuel blockade by sealing off major highways used by tankers to transport fuel from neighbouring Senegal and the Ivory Coast to the landlocked Sahel country since September.
