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pan-regional / 'is Mali about to fall'

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Frames the blockade as a slow strangulation of the state rather than a battlefield collapse: JNIM does not need to take Bamako if it controls the fuel arteries that keep it running. Foregrounds the economic siege over set-piece battles.

“JNIM has imposed a fuel blockade on Bamako, destroying hundreds of tankers and choking the capital's supply lines.”