Militants ambushed a convoy of trucks heading to Mali's blockaded capital of Bamako Wednesday, a transportation workers union said, the latest in a crisis that began with sweeping, coordinated attacks by separatist and jihadi forces across the West African nation last month.
A source told Sahara Media that a Mauritanian citizen was wounded by gunfire during an attack by armed groups attempting to impose a siege on the Malian capital, Bamako. According to the source, the citizen was part of a convoy that included a Mauritanian vehicle loaded with fish, driven by his brother, and two Moroccan vehicles, when they came under fire near the village of Jamjouma on the Kouki-Niourou road. The source added that the victim su…