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| Gunmen kill five villagers in central Mali |
| 2020-10-12 |
| [AlAhram] At least five Malian villagers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the centre of the country where attacks and ethnic festivities have been on the rise, witnesses and local officials said on Sunday. The attack followed the kidnapping by button men on Tuesday of around 20 people at a weekly market in the same village, Farabougou, near the central Malian town of Niono. "The village is cut off from the country by gunnies who have blocked all access routes," said village chief Boukary Coulibaly. Villagers trying to enter the area were ambushed, leaving five dead and fifteen maimed, he said. Another local official said six people had been killed. A resident contacted by AFP by phone also said that six non-combatants were killed by the jihadists, and others were missing. While the ambush was going on, another group of button men in pick-up trucks and cycle of violences rounded up cattle from Farabougou, another villager said. An official at the security ministry said security forces were taking measures to free the village. Mali has been struggling to end a jihadist insurgency which emerged in 2012 and has since spread into neighbouring 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. Central Mali has become an epicentre of the conflict, with routine jihadist attacks, ethnic strife and tit-for-tat killings among communities. |
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