Ethnic clashes leave 31 dead in Mali

‘Thirty-one people were killed over the weekend in central Mali as ethnic groups clashed over land in a zone where the state is near-absent and extremists roam freely.
Nomadic Fulani people and farmers from the Dogon ethnic group have engaged in tit-for-tat violence sparked by Fulanis grazing their cattle on Dogon land.
Dogons also accuse Fulanis in the area of colluding with cleric Amadou Koufa, whose extremist group recently joined an extremist alliance with links to al-Qaeda.
The Malian army confirmed “31 dead, (comprising) 27 Fulanis and four Dogons,” along with nine more injured, in a statement released Monday night.’
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