Bamako, Mali's capital, has been left without electricity and running water for more than two days after suspected sabotage on a high-voltage transmission line linking the city to the Manantali Dam (a major hydroelectric facility on the Mali-Mauritania-Senegal border), according to officials from state water utility SOMAGEP. The outages forced thousands of residents to queue before dawn at boreholes and neighbourhood wells, with many reporting taps dry for over 24 hours. No group has claimed responsibility, but the attack is consistent with a sustained campaign by the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM militant group, which has been blockading key roads and destroying vehicles to destabilise the country's already fragile economy and infrastructure.