Gunmen kill at least 31 people, set huts and crops alight and burn livestock in village of Ogossagou

Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region.

Thirty-one people were killed in an attack overnight Friday in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people, where 160 died last March in a massacre blamed on Dogon militiamen, the government said.

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian dead after second attack on military in a month

Jihadists have attacked the Malian military near the border with Niger, killing at least 53 soldiers and one civilian in the second major assault on the armed forces in a month, the government said.

The latest attack happened on Friday in Indelimane, located in the volatile Menaka region.

Mayor says 95 bodies recovered so far and much of village is still burning

Gunmen killed nearly 100 people in an overnight massacre in Mali, local officials have said, amid a wave of violence in the Sahel region linked to Islamist extremists.

The attackers entered a traditional Dogon village in central Mali under cover of darkness and started “shooting, pillaging and burning”, local media quoted officials as saying. The attackers are believed to belong to the Fulani ethnic group.

President of Peulh ethnic group says ‘pregnant women, young and elderly’ targeted by Dogon group in remote area

Militia fighters descended on a village in central Mali before dawn on Saturday, killing at least 115 people in the latest deadly attack blamed on an ethnic militia, local authorities said.

The massacre in the village of Ogossogou left the village chief and his grandchildren dead in the ethnic Peulh community, according to a local official who had received detailed accounts from the remote area.