Friday's attack targeted a Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.
Two other local officials confirmed the attack and the corpse count to AFP.
Mali has been struggling to quell a Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...revolt that first broke out in north in 2012, before spreading to the center, as well as neighboring Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
and Niger.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict, while many more have been forced to flee their homes.
Central Mali -- an ethnic mosaic -- has become one of the flashpoints of conflict in the country, with regular Takfiri attacks on military targets and occasional inter-communal fighting.
The pastoralist Fulani people are often accused of being close to Takfiri hard boys, a perception which has led to tit-for-tit massacres between them and other ethnic groups.
A local government official in Koro, a subdivision of the Mopti region, told AFP that the attack on Binedama occurred on Friday afternoon.
Two women, and a nine-year-old girl, were killed in the attack, he said.
Friday's attack also comes at a time of increasing insecurity in Mali.
Prominent opposition figure Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped in central Mali on March 25 while campaigning for a parliamentary election.
The region has also seen several massacres recently, including a hard boy attack on rural villages which left 12 people dead in April.
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