Niger has revoked the licenses of around thirty transport operators and truck drivers for refusing to transport fuel to neighboring Mali, which is facing shortages due to a jihadist blockade.<\/p>\n
Niger\u00a0and\u00a0Mali, a landlocked country ruled by a junta, are allied with\u00a0Burkina Faso, which is also run by the military, and all three are facing an escalation in jihadist attacks.<\/p>\n
Mali experienced a severe fuel shortage in October and November after militants from the\u00a0Group to Support Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin\u00a0(JNIM), an\u00a0Al-Qaeda affiliate, cut off fuel supplies to several towns in this arid West African country.<\/p>\n
Niger, an oil-producing country, planned to send 82 fuel tankers to Bamako, the Malian capital, covering the 1,400 kilometers under military escort.<\/p>\n
Niger’s Ministry of Transport revoked the licenses of 14 carriers and 19 drivers for refusing to transport the fuel, according to a ministry statement seen by AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n
Another operator received a one-year suspension. \u201cThis _refusal constitutes a serious violation of the legal and regulatory obligations in for_ce,\u201d said Transport Minister Abdourahamane Amadou.<\/p>\n
Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have formed\u00a0the Alliance of Sahel\u00a0States, announced the creation of a 5,000-strong joint force and their three armies are jointly conducting operations against jihadists.<\/p>\n
Fuel supply problems are once again affecting some regions of Mali, including Bamako airport, where several flights have been canceled in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Niger has revoked the licenses of around thirty transport operators and truck drivers for refusing to transport fuel to neighboring Mali, which is facing shortages due to a jihadist blockade. Niger\u00a0and\u00a0Mali, a landlocked country ruled by a junta, are allied with\u00a0Burkina Faso, which is also run by the military, and all three are facing an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2831,2362,27],"tags":[4172,187,383],"class_list":["post-19256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-featured","category-west-africa","tag-jamaat-nusrat-al-islam-wal-muslimin-jnim","tag-mali","tag-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19257,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions\/19257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}