Please, PLEASE pray for Mali
In a video posted online, JNIM leader Abou Houzeifa Al Bambari said they would not allow ‘even a single drop of fuel in’.
JNIM, a jihadist group swearing loyalty to Al-Qaeda, has been blockading Mali's capital for weeks to prevent fuel from coming in, and so far it's been working. The US Embassy has, in addition to the "get out now" order, said that it can no longer offer consular services to Americans in any part of the country except the capital. I would expect a full evacuation within a week or two, maybe sooner. Mali has no real way of stopping this-the previous times they fought off insurgencies were with Western air support that they demanded leave after their military took power, and the "help" they've been getting from Russian mercenaries has been so filled with war crimes that some local groups were choosing to back JNIM because the Malian military had actually been treating them worse, something that shouldn't have even been possible.
If the capital falls, a nation of 22 million people will be plunged into anarchy, where an Al-Qaeda-offshoot jihadist group will be the biggest power player, to say nothing of the 4.2 million people living in Bamako who will be at their mercy. Please, if you're reading this, no matter how you worship, pray for Mali.
