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Mali sacks top army chiefs, dissolves militia after scores killed
[Al Jazeera] Mali's government has announced the sacking of top military officers and the dissolution of a militia, a day after the killing of more than 130 people.Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said on Sunday new military chiefs would be named, and that the Dan Nan Ambassagou association, comprising Dogon hunters, had been dissolved. "The protection of the population will remain the monopoly of the state," Maiga told journalists. Survivors of Saturday's attack said ethnic Dogon hunters carried out the raid in Ogossagou, a village in central Mali inhabited by the Fulani community. Later on Sunday, Rooters news agency reported that army chief of staff General M'Bemba Moussa Keita was removed and replaced by General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, while chief of land forces General Abdrahamane Baby was replaced by Brigadier-General Keba Sangare. The developments came hours after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita called an emergency meeting in response to the attack, in which at least 134 men, women and kiddies were killed. The victims were shot or hacked to death with machetes, a security source told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2019-03-25 |
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