The girl's life was plunged into hell on Saturday when gun- and machete-toting men entered her village in central Mali, set to kill everyone from her community, the Fulani. Amy says she lost several members of her family in the massacre at Ogossagou, a village in the Bankass district near the border with Burkina Faso. Homes in the village have been put to the torch, and rotting animal carcasses litter the ground. A WITNESSMr Barry said they murdered the village chief in front of his mother, whom they then killed. CHILDREN TRAUMATISEDIn another part of the village, traces of black smoke scar the walls of several huts.

Source: Daily Nation March 27, 2019 17:37 UTC