{"id":16090,"date":"2019-03-25T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16090"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:37:14","slug":"update-mali-bans-hunting-society-after-attack-kills-130-fulani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16090","title":{"rendered":"Update: Mali Bans Hunting Society After Attack Kills 130 Fulani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20190325_africa.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Fulani are semi-nomadic herders<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;BAMAKO, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;<\/strong>Mali&#8217;s government has banned the group of hunters it says was behind an attack in which more than 130 villagers were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At dawn on Saturday, gunmen surrounded a village of the Fulani ethnic community who are accused of having ties to jihadists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hunters had said the army failed to protect them against jihadists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack took place while UN ambassadors were in Mali to discuss increased violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Security Council mission met Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga to talk about the increased threat from jihadist fighters in central Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims of Saturday&#8217;s deadly attack in Ogossagou in the Mopti region were &#8220;killed with guns and machetes&#8221;, a local security official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor of the neighbouring village of Ouenkoro, Cheick Harouna Sankare, described the attack as a &#8220;massacre&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clashes between Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders can occur over access to land and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group the government banned, Dan Na Ambassagou, which translates as &#8220;hunters who trust in God&#8221;, are an umbrella group of Dogon self-defence groups, or traditional hunting societies, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Dogon militia leader previously complained to HRW that the army has been unable to protect their villages against jihadist attacks so they set up their own self-defence groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the attacks the government announced that the commanders of the Malian military would be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, hundreds of people died in clashes between Dogon hunters and members of the Fula ethnic group. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulani are semi-nomadic herders &nbsp;BAMAKO, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;Mali&#8217;s government has banned the group of hunters it says was behind an attack in which more than 130 villagers were killed. At dawn on Saturday, gunmen surrounded a village of the Fulani ethnic community who are accused of having ties to jihadists. The hunters had said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":16043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}