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Nearly 100 killed, 19 missing in central Mali village massacre

The UN deployed peacekeepers to Mali in 2013 after a jihadist-backed insurgency erupted in the north of the country. Violence has since spread to the centre, inflamming long-running hostilities between ethnic groups. [Photo: AFP]

Nearly 100 people were killed in a gruesome overnight attack on a village in central Mali, in the latest violence to strike the fragile region, authorities said Monday.

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