“The new toll is 115 dead” in the village of Ogossagou, said Cheick Harouna Sankare, mayor of neighbouring Ouenkoro. The massacre took place as a delegation from the United Nations Security Council visited the Sahel region to assess the jihadist threat there. Since then, there have been repeated clashes between the nomadic Fulani herders and the Dogon ethnic group. In January, Dogon hunters were blamed for the killing of 37 people in another Fulani village, Koulogon, in the same region. Despite the presence of UN peacekeepers, a strong French military contingent and the creation of a five-nation military force in the region, jihadist violence has not abated.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 24, 2019 15:45 UTC