Tensions are escalating in central Mali. Some people were killed in a French airstrike this weekend. France says they were terrorists. The locals say it was a wedding party.

Wedding party or terrorists? French air strikes escalate tensions in Mali

Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation. Friday's attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.

Twenty-six killed in attack on a village in central Mali

Nomadic Fulani people and farmers from the Dogon ethnic group have engaged in tit-for-tat violence sparked by Fulanis grazing their cattle on Dogon land

25 killed in ethnic violence in Central Mali: Community leader

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Wedding party or terrorists? French air strikes escalate tensions in Mali

Twenty-six killed in attack on a village in central Mali

25 killed in ethnic violence in Central Mali: Community leader