{"id":77604,"date":"2020-06-07T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77604"},"modified":"2020-06-07T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:38:21","slug":"twenty-six-killed-in-an-attack-on-fulani-village-in-central-mali-latest-violence-to-hit-the-west-african-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77604","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six killed in an attack on Fulani village in central Mali, latest violence to hit the West African nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mali.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mali.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, June 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-six people were killed in an<br>attack on a village in central Mali, officials said, in the<br>latest violence to hit the West African nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday\u2019s attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the<br>volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital<br>Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other local officials confirmed the attack and the death toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mali has been struggling to quell a jihadist revolt that first<br>broke out in north in 2012, before spreading to the centre, as well as<br>neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the<br>conflict, while many more have been forced to flee their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Mali \u2014 an ethnic mosaic \u2014 has become one of the<br>flashpoints of conflict in the country, with regular jihadist attacks<br>on military targets and occasional intercommunal fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pastoralist Fulani people are often accused of being close to<br>jihadists, a perception which has led to tit-for-tit massacres between<br>them and other ethnic groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local government official in Koro, a subdivision of the Mopti<br>region, that the attack on Binedama occurred on Friday<br>afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two women, and a nine-year-old girl, were killed in the attack, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday\u2019s attack also comes at a time of increasing insecurity in Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent opposition figure Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped in central<br>Mali on March 25 while campaigning for a parliamentary election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The region has also seen several massacres recently, including a<br>militant attack on rural villages which left 12 people dead in April. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, June 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-six people were killed in anattack on a village in central Mali, officials said, in thelatest violence to hit the West African nation. Friday\u2019s attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in thevolatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from TabitalPulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali. Two other local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":77608,"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\/77604"}],"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=77604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}