is investigating whether an attack in mali constitutes crimes against humanity hundreds of ethnic fulani herders were killed in this old last month mali's government has blamed the violence on local armed groups their close hack has more from the city of go. these full on the villagers are trying to heal their wounds and make sense of the violence against them. they say they were attacked in their village weeks ago because of their ethnic origin gunmen on motorbikes stormed in and kill anyone they saw. children were beheaded with machetes pregnant women butchered others bled to death in all one hundred sixty people were killed and hundreds injured it was. though we were chased from our homes we came here thinking we were safe never could i have thought that our neighbors here too would turn against us. and that. mali's government accused dawn tried militia for the attack they deny being involved minutes after it started mullion soldiers just a few kilometers away were alerted it took them twelve hours to arrive despite sixteen thousand un peacekeeping troops in mali there quick reaction

is that the problems we've had between the fulani herdsmen and the farmers and the herdsmen which haveri has failed in that respect because he did not act, he behaved exactly likejonathan. he was apathetic. got to ask you about literature, because of course you were awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1986, so, although, you are a great campaigner for human rights and civil rights and civic rights and so on, you are obviously a man of culture, a man of letters and so on, and so i want to know where you stand on this debate amongst african writers, which has being bubbling for some time, about the language in which you write. you write mostly in english. is that something you defend? mostly in english. english happens to be the lingua franca of nigeria. how many languages do we have? over 300. and i'm not talking about dialects, i'm talking about languages. and you want to make a country out of that, you've got to settle on a means of communication which is common to everyone. i have advocated, by the way, africa having a common language. at the union of writers of the african peo

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government al-qaeda that's usually supported by some elements of the full on us i guess the wider fulani people who are being attacked in huge numbers as well they have been associated with our kind of they've been associated with them losing their loved ones by the government usually under the the umbrella of trying to attack terrorism. the us is developing a rescue plan for venezuela's economy to sign to pump cash into the country through banks phones and apps but even though the trumpet ministration isn't rushing to reveal the details the plant has one key condition. the timeline is to get rid of the girl. i have no idea when that's going to be that would be. a question of. getting hold of the. government. venezuelan opposition plans to renew its efforts to ask president nicolas maduro on saturday and the. calls to install. the leader of the opposition in the us some advocating for power and doing so in default as. explained with venezuela in conflict the media definitely needs voices to explain you know analysts to assess the situation in the country and it also helps if they can spe

government al-qaeda that's usually supported by some elements of the full line yes i guess the wider fulani people who are being attacked in huge numbers as well they have been associated with kind of they've been associated with them losing their loved ones by the government usually under the the umbrella of trying to attack back in a couple of minutes don't go away. little. people in america have no money. and yet and house prices are. skyrocketing relative to their wages but the government says that's not inflation health care costs are galloping at ten or fifteen percent a year and one. government says that's not in. other words there is. a concerted and decided excise. the workers in the united states. welcome back to the program the minister for the armed forces is facing a backlash after some took him to be saying that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred u.k.'s strikes in syria and iraq while lancaster clarified his position as follows. it was not our position that there has only been a single civilian casualty as a result of a military action which we have a

last month, armed men killed 160 people from a fulani community, asas rights groups warned of mounting militia killings of civilians in central and northern mali. the killings sparked mass demonstrations by thousands of protesters in bamako earlier this month, demanding the government step down, as well as the departure of foreign forces from mali. in sudan, hundreds of thouousans of protesters continued to hold rallies in cities across the country on thursday and friday, calling for an end to military rule. the protests come as sudan marks the one-week anniversary of long-time president omar al-bashir's removal by top sudanese generals amid a popular uprising against his 30-year rule. since al-bashir's ouster, thousands of youth-led protesters have been holding a sit-in occupation of areas just outside the ministry of defense in the capital khartoum. a military council has said it will oversee a transitional period of up to two years. the protesters are demanding the military quickly hand over power to a civilian-led government. the african union is demanding the same thing or saying

so the ethnic killings one hundred sixty people in a fulani village were killed last month by a suspected gunman from the rival doggone ethnic group demonstrators angry at the government to tell him to stop such killings as well as the poor economy and the presence of foreign forces al-jazeera is nicholas hart is in neighboring senegal few says the resignations do pose a big challenge for the money and president. the prime minister is to me lose my did not give a reason for his resignation but it really comes as no surprise because just days ago on wednesday the national assembly members of the ruling party and the opposition in an unprecedented move put out a motion of no confidence against the prime minister and against his government and that was supposed to be voted in on friday the resignation came on thursday night it also comes on the heels of massive protests on april fifth thousands of mali is took to the streets asking for the prime minister's resignation and calling for foreign troops to leave the country there's thirteen thousand u.n. peacekeeping troops as well as french troo

of the biggest in recent years falls the killing of almost one hundred and sixty villages from the fulani group priyanka gupta reports. i angered over the killing of villages not directed at president abraham. protesters gathered in the thousands of the capital bamako in one of mali's biggest demonstrations in years protests to say the government and u.n. forces are not doing enough to stop the bloodshed in the mali point to include his misdeed mali is going through a multidimensional crisis we have witnessed killings that mali has never known in its history in its entire history last month at least two hundred fifty seven people were killed in the more the region members of the dog and ethnic community have been accused of carrying out the attack on full lani herders in the village of . the two groups are often in conflict or access to land the killings are believed to be the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in mali in a generation opposition parties and some religious leaders say the president has failed to act. to the book of a declared today president kate his regime is condemned