{"id":58741,"date":"2020-01-17T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58741"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:17:51","slug":"mali-inter-ethnic-attack-kills-15-in-fulani-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58741","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Inter-ethnic attack kills 15 in Fulani village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/m-2.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/m-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fifteen people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali, security and local officials said, in a fresh bout of apparent ethnic violence in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armed men attacked Sinda village between Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning, said a security official, adding some victims had their throats slit in their sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local elected official said that other villagers were killed after being stopped by a group of traditional hunters known as the Dozo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamist militants launched an insurgency in northern Mali in 2012, stoking a conflict that has since spread to the centre of the country and neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conflict has frequently taken on an ethnic dimension, with attacks targeting Fulani people often perceived as being close to jihadists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radical preacher and jihadist leader Amadou Koufa, for example, is Fulani and has recruited from the ethnic group, who are traditionally nomadic herders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadly clashes between Fulani and the sedentary Bambara and Dogon ethnic groups have increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 160 Fulani died in March last year in Ogossagou, near the border with Burkina Faso, in a massacre blamed on a Dogon militia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, around 75 Dogons were killed in the villages of Sobane Da, Gangafani and Yoro, in an attack blamed on Fulani militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There had been a lull in ethnic violence since August, since armed Fulani and Dogon groups from central Mali agreed a ceasefire. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fifteen people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali, security and local officials said, in a fresh bout of apparent ethnic violence in the war-torn country. Armed men attacked Sinda village between Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning, said a security official, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741"}],"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=58741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}