Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said on Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said on Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region on Friday, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two other local officials confirmed the attack and the death toll.<\/p>\n
A local government official in Koro, a subdivision of the Mopti region, said that the attack on Binedama occurred on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two women, and a nine-year-old girl, were killed in the attack, he said.<\/p>\n
Mali has been struggling to quell a revolt that first broke out in north in 2012, before spreading to the centre, as well as neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.<\/p>\n
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict, while many more have been forced to flee their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Central Mali \u2013 an ethnic mosaic \u2013 has become one of the flashpoints of conflict in the country, with regular militant attacks on military targets and occasional intercommunal fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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