Two days earlier, in the village of Hombori ... The villages of Dogon Country are among hundreds of sites across Mali that local people have plundered for cash. The pillaging feeds an insatiable ...

The UN deployed peacekeepers to Mali in 2013 after a jihadist-backed ... responsibility but the massacre, targeting a village inhabited by the Dogon community, bore the hallmarks of tit-for ...

In June 2022, more than 130 civilians were killed in the same village, in one of the worst attacks in Mali in recent years ... and the Bambara and Dogon, largely farmers, leading to the formation ...

There have been numerous attacks in Mali in recent months, some ethnically driven, some carried out by jihadist groups. Clashes between Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders are frequent.