Militia fighters descended on a village in central Mali before dawn Saturday, killing at least 134 people in the latest deadly attack blamed on an ethnic militia, the UN secretary general said. The victims "included pregnant women, young children and the elderly," according to Abdoul Aziz Diallo, president of a Peulh group known as Tabital Pulaaku. The growing prominence of Islamist extremists in central Mali since 2015 has unravelled relations between the Dogon and Peulh communities. Members of the Dogon group accuse the Peulhs of supporting these jihadists linked to terror groups in the country's north and beyond. The region, though, has been destabilized in recent years along with much of central Mali.

Source: CBC News March 23, 2019 17:37 UTC