At least thirty people killed in spate of attacks in central Mali
A general view shows the damage at the site of an attack on the Dogon village of Sobane Da, Mali June 11, 2019.
"Huts and crops were set alight, livestock was burned or taken away," he added, vowing that the government would find the perpetrators.He blamed the attack on a traditional Dogon hunters' group – an assertion that could be not be verified independently. Also on Friday a soldier was killed in an attack on a military camp in Mondoro, also in central Mali, security officials said.
Led by a firebrand Islamic preacher Amadou Koufa, a militia called the Katiba Macina recruited members from among the Fulani and became accused of ethnically-motivated attacks. Around 75 Dogons were killed in the villages of Sobane Da, Gangafani and Yoro in June last year, in an attack blamed on Fulani militants.Human Rights Watch this month pointed to the ethnic patchwork of central Mali as the country's "epicentre" of violence.
On January 26, Al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a military camp in Sokolo, central Mali, killing 20 gendarmes and wounding five more.
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