Mali: Six Moroccan trucks en route to supply Bamako with food set ablaze

Gunmen linked to the Macina Movement, also known as the «Fulani Liberation Movement» and allied with the «Support Group for Islam and Muslims», set fire, Wednesday, to Moroccan trucks en route to Mali. These trucks were laden with food and supplies, as reported by the German News Agency.

According to the agency, which cited eyewitness accounts, the trucks were torched on the route connecting Koki Zamal, near the Mauritanian border, to the capital, Bamako. This attack appears to be part of a broader strategy to tighten the blockade on Malian cities, obstructing the flow of consumer goods arriving via Mauritanian and Senegalese ports, as well as those transported overland from Morocco through Mauritania.

Video footage circulating online shows members of the Macina Movement setting the trucks ablaze amid gunfire and chants, deliberately targeting the fuel tanks to ignite them.

In a related development, the same source reported that militants had set fire to Senegalese trucks traveling from Dakar on the Khai-Bamako route yesterday, and had previously targeted two Mauritanian trucks in similar attacks.

These armed groups have declared a blockade on the capital, Bamako, aiming to halt the delivery of food and supply shipments. This follows a series of deadly and coordinated attacks on April 25th, targeting the capital and other Malian cities, highlighting the worsening security situation in the region.