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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at the market in central Mali in March when Islamic extremists attacked his village, killing dozens of people and stealing about $10,000 worth of his cows and camels.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at the market in central Mali in March when Islamic extremists attacked his village, killing dozens of people and stealing about $10,000 worth of his cows and camels. “We lost everything,” the 62-year-old told The Associated Press by phone from the Menaka region in the West African […]
Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at a market in central Mali in March when jihadists attacked his village, killing dozens of people and stealing cows and camels worth around $10,000.
Cattle raiding by Islamic militants is soaring at unprecedented levels in Mali, with groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State stealing millions of dollars' worth of cattle to buy weapons and vehicles to fund their insurgency across Mali and the region below the Sahara Desert, known as the Sahel.