Bamako - Arabstoday
Thirty people have been killed in interethnic clashes in the Malian village of Sari, located nine miles (15 kilometers) from the country’s border with Burkina Faso, the governor of the northern province of Burkina Faso said. The violence erupted between the Peul and Dogon groups, with reports of some victims being burned alive. Mali’s ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure was himself a Peul, a group made up of herders who were allowed to cross territories inhabited by the Dogon, who are farmers, on special paths. Since Toure was overthrown in March, a dispute began over these rights.