As tensions grow over use of land and food scarcity in the African country of Mali presided upon by Boubacar keita, 8 people have died in violent clashes between two ethnic groups in the country’s central region.
Ceoafrica gathered that increased availability of arms from Libya has also contributed to intercommunal violence in Mali, while drought has forced herders into areas traditionally cultivated by farmers.
Cattle rustling in the village of Tougou angered traditional hunters who cultivate the land with their animals, who then carried out reprisals on Wednesday against Fulani people they believed had stolen the cows.
The Clashes in the nearby town of Diabaly "killed eight people".
Fulani people are frequently accused of criminality and colluding with Takfiri militants who have sowed chaos in Mali in recent years, especially in the north but more recently in the centre as well.
It was further gathered that 13 wounded people have been in the hospital for treatment, with victims corroborating the deaths of eight people.
Military reinforcements were on the scene to calm tensions.
Hundreds of people were displaced by similar violence in February, also between members of the Fulani minority and majority Bambara people, and 20 were left dead.
Since the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi's regime in Libya, weapons have travelled freely from the chaotic state in an arc of unrest through Mali and Niger.