“We are provisionally at 134 bodies recovered by the gendarmes,” Guindo told Reuters by telephone from Ogossagou. That group said that raid was payback for violence by Mali’s army and militiamen against the Fulani. Some 4,500 French troops remain based in the wider Sahel, most of them in Mali. “Clear sense of frustration among many Security Council members at pace of implementation of Mali Peace Agreement,” Britain’s representative on the mission, Stephen Hickey, wrote on Twitter. “Security Council prepared to impose sanctions on those who impede its implementation.”

Source: bd News24 March 23, 2019 19:52 UTC