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Militants Ambush Fruit Trucks on the Road to Bamako as a Blockade of Mali's Capital Persists

The convoy carried fruit from Morocco, and the drivers’ fate was not immediately known, a union official said.

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.

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Militants ambush fruit trucks on the road to Bamako as a blockade of Mali's capital persists

Militants have ambushed a convoy of trucks heading to Mali’s blockaded capital of Bamako. That's according to a transportation workers union.

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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…

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saharamedias.net broke the news on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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