Sanctions go into effect in post-coup Mali
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Malians lined up outside gas stations holding jerrycans, water bottles and plastic jugs, as the landlocked West African nation braced itself Tuesday for sanctions imposed overnight as a consequence of a coup last month.
In an effort to force out the soldiers that seized control of Mali on March 21, Mali's neighbors decided at an emergency summit Monday to impose an embargo, shutting their borders with Mali and freezing its account at the regional central bank. The nation roughly twice the size of France imports all its fuel, which is trucked in overland from neighboring Ivory Coast and Senegal, both of which are located on Africa's Atlantic Coast. (AP)
