Local officials in central Mali say gunmen killed at least 23 people and wounded a dozen others in an attack on a village
Armed gunment killed at least 23 people and wounded 12 in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Sunday.
“The assailants stayed in the village until 7 p.m. and burned down part of the village, smashed stores and took away the villagers’ cattle,” said Amadou Lougué, president of the regional youth organization, on Sunday. The attack has not been claimed.Communities across central and northern Mali have been in the grips of protracted armed violence since 2012.
Elements of JNIM, a West African jihadist group linked with al-Qaida, placed a blockade on the ancient trading city nearly two weeks ago in response to an influx of Malian soldiers and foreign mercenaries into the area. The recent uptick in insecurity in the area likely stems from the departure of a U.N. peacekeeping mission from its base in Ber, which has been under the control of separatist rebels since they signed a peace deal with the Malian government in 2015. A July U.N. resolution said the peacekeeping mission would be shuttered after a decade of operations.
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